Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
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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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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
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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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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
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What barrier is there that love cannot break?
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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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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.