Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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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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The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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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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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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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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God is not in strength but in truth.
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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Non-cooperation is a nation's determination to improve.