Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
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I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
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You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
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Truth is the right designation of God.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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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 we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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Sanitation is more important than Independence.
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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 customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
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My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.