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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
Mahatma Gandhi
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Religion should be dearer than life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi