Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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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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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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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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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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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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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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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
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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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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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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.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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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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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.