Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.
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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
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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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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
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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.