Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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Life is greater than all art.
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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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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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. 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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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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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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To see farther, you must climb higher.
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.