Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
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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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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
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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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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
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Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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Patience means self-suffering.