Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
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It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.