Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
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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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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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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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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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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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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
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I have no weapon but nonviolence.
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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.