Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
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We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
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There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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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 greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.
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Buddhism in one long prayer.
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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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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
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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.