Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
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Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
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The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
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A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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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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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
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Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.
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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
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God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
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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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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.