Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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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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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
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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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Faith is the function of the heart.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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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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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
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When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
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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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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.