Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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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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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
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I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
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I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
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Your life is your message.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.