Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nothing is of a permanent nature.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
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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.
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Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
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To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
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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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Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.
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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
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The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.