Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
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Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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What is impossible with man is child's play with God.
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All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
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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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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.