Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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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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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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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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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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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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When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
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For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.