Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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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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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
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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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India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
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Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
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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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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.