Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
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No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
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Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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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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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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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.