Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
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I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.