Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I shall die, but I will not kill.
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The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
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We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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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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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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The Law which governs all life is God.
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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.
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A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.