Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
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What is faith if it is not translated into action?
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
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My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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I shall die, but I will not kill.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
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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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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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Life is one indivisible whole.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.