Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.
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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.