Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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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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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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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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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
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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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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
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Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.