Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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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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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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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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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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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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Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
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The weak can never forgive.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
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My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.