Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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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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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.
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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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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
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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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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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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
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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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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.