Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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War knows no law except that of might.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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The sum total of karma is God.
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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.
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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.