Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
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Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
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Before Hindus and Moslems dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
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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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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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Love is the law of life.
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
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Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.