Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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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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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.