Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
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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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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
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Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
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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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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
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The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
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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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Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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The path is the goal.
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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.