Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
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One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
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Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.