Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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God cannot be realized through intellect.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.
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The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
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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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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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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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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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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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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
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Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.