Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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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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Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
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I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.
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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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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 to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.