Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
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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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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
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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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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
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People cannot hurt you without your permission.
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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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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
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Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
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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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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.