Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What is impossible with man is child's play with God.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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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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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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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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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
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Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
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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 fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.