Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
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Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.
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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
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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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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
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For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
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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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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
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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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Love is the subtlest force in the world.
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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Sanitation is more important than Independence.