Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
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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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Non-cooperation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
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Violence always thrived on counter violence.
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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
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There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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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 truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
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And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.
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You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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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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A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
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The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
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For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.
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A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.