Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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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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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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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.
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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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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
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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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If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
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Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
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The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
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Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.
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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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The future of India lies in its villages.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.