Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
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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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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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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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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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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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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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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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For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
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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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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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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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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.