Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.
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We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.
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God cannot be realized through intellect.
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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
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My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
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Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
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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.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
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Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.