Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
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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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Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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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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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.
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Labour is priceless, not gold.
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I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.
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Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
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Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.