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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Life is but an endless series of experiments.
Mahatma Gandhi -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
Mahatma Gandhi -
God is Truth, Truth is God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
Mahatma Gandhi -
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
Mahatma Gandhi