Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
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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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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
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Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.
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Nothing is of a permanent nature.
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Means are ends in the making.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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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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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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As the means, so the end.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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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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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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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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Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.
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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.