Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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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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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.