Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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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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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
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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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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
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A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
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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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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.