Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
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Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.