Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.
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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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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
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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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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
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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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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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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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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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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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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.