Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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My life is my message.
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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.