Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
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Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
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Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
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The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.