Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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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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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
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A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
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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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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
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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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We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.