Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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God is Truth, Truth is God.
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
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Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
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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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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
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The future depends on what we do in the present.
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The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
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All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
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The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.