Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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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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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
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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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God is not in strength but in truth.
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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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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
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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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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.