Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
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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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There's no God higher than truth.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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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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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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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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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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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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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 greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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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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For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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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.