Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
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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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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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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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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
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People become what they expect themselves to become.
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Truth is the right designation of God.
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.