Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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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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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
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A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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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 faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.