Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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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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The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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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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Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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To give one's heart is to give all.
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The true battlefield is within.