Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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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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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
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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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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.