Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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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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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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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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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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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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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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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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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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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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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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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.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.