Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
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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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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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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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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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My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.