Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
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True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.