Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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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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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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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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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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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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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.