Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
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Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
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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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I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
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Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
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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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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.