Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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God is Truth, Truth is God.
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
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Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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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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If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
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Means are ends in the making.