Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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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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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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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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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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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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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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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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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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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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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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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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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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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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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.