Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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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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Non-cooperation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
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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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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
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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.