Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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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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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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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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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.
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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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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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As the means, so the end.
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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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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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
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Life is but an endless series of experiments.
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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.