Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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God cannot be realized through intellect.
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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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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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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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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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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
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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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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.