Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
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The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
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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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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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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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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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If you do nothing there will be no results.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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Love is the law of life.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
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Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
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No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
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One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.