Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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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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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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Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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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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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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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.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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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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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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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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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 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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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.