Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
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I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.
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The weak can never forgive.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
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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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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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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.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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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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God cannot be realized through intellect.
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.