Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.
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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.