Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
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Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
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God is not outside this earthly case of ours.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.
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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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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 only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
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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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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
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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 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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It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
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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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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.