Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
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There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.
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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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What is faith if it is not translated into action?
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?