Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
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The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
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Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
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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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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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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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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.