Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
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God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
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Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
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When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
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When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
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Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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Non-cooperation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary cooperation based on mutual respect and trust.
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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.