Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.
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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
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Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
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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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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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People cannot hurt you without your permission.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.