Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
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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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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
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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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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.