Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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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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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
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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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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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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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I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
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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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The true battlefield is within.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
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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.