Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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God is not in strength but in truth.
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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
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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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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
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The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
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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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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.