Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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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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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
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If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.
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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.