Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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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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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.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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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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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.
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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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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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To give one's heart is to give all.
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.