Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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Non-cooperation is a nation's determination to improve.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
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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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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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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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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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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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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.