Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
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I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
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Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
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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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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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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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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
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A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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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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The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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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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If untouchability lives, humanity must die.