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Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
Non-violence
requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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Non-violence,
which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the
brain.
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One's own religion
is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Only he can take
great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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Peace is its own
reward.
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Poverty is the
worst form of violence.
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Prayer is a
confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Prayer is not an
old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the
most potent instrument of action.
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Prayer is the key
of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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Providence has its
appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only
strive.
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Purity of personal
life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound
education.
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Religion is a
matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment
of one's own religion.
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Religion is more
than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man
even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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Satisfaction lies
in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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Self-respect knows
no considerations.
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Spiritual
relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship
divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Strength does not
come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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That service is
the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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The best way to
find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The difference
between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to
solve most of the world's problem.
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The essence of all
religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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The good man is
the friend of all living things.
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The greatness of a
nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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The human voice
can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice
of conscience.
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The law an eye for
an eye makes the whole world blind.
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The law of
sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands
the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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The main purpose
of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must
languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The moment there
is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes
tainted.
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The only tyrant I
accept in this world is the still voice within.
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The pursuit of
truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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The real ornament
of woman is her character, her purity.
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The spirit of
democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of
forms. It requires change of heart.
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The weak can never
forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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There are people
in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the
form of bread.
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There is a higher
court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It
supercedes all other courts.
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There is a
sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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There is more to
life than increasing its speed.
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There is no
principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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There is nothing
that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Those who know how
to think need no teachers.
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Those who say
religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Though we may know
Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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To believe in
something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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To give pleasure
to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads
bowing in prayer.
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Truth is by nature
self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that
surround it, it shines clear.
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Truth never
damages a cause that is just.
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Truth stands, even
if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Unwearied
ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into
a rich infallible experience.
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Victory attained
by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Violent means will
give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India
herself.
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Violent men have
not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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We do not need to
proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so
really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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We may have our
private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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We may never be
strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But
we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards
it.
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We must become the
change we want to see in the world.
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We win justice
quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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What do I think of
Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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What is true of
the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if
individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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Whatever you do
may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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When I admire the
wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the
worship of the creator.
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When restraint and
courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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Where love is,
there God is also.
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Where there is
love there is life.
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You can chain me,
you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never
imprison my mind.
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You don't have to
burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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You must be the
change you wish to see in the world.
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You must not lose
faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean
are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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