Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.