Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
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A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
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Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.