Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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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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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
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Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
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The path is the goal.
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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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Let your life be your message.
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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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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.