Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
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True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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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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There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
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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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God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
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A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.