Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
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Love is no love which asks for a return.
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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.