Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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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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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.