Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
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Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
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To see farther, you must climb higher.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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Love is the subtlest force in the world.
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.