Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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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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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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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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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
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Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.
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It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
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Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
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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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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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Man believes and lives.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.