Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
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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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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
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The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.