Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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To see farther, you must climb higher.
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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
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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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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
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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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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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What barrier is there that love cannot break?
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
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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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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
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The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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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.