Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
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My religion has no geographical limits.
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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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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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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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I think it would be a good idea.
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Your life is your message.
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Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.