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Mohandas
Gandhi |
Born 2 October 1869,
Porbandar, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died 30 January 1948 (aged 78), New Delhi, Union
of India
Cause of death Assassination (three bullets in the
chest)
Resting place Rajghat, New Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Other names Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu
Known for Prominent figure of Indian independence
movement
Propounding the philosophy of Satyagraha and Ahimsa
Religion Hinduism
Spouse Kasturba Gandhi
Children Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, Devdas
Parents Putlibai Gandhi (Mother), Karamchand
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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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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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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a
'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the
prerogative of the brave.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he
becomes.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a
sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and
became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of
its people.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but
while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic
zeal.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as
imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we
devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and
does not help to solve them is no religion.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable
faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a
fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man
is unjust by accident.
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Action expresses priorities.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive
tendencies of the human frame.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be
no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere
fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in
other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this
world but Truth.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be
well.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of
arms as the blackest.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees
it.
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for
its breach is more so.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct
understanding.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster
that swallows it up.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man
can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for
which people live for ages and ages.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being
able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic
age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by
his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our
hearts.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is
evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the
dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel
stronger for confession.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who
always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear
consistent drives himself into a false position.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be
real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within
everyone.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes
blind it dies.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion.
For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of
life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom
to err.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive
possession of no one race or religion.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in
reaching it.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands,
even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes
to bless.
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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May
He be so to every one of us.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you
do are in harmony.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am
prepared to kill.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and
photographers.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of
the world.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to
die unarmed.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into
watertight compartments called social, political and
religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any
other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility
enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not
enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be
sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give
it up.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with
taking care of the present. God has given me no control over
the moment following.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the
effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being
an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and
Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to
try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the
spirit of service and sacrifice.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a
difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal
effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your
Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being
faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults
of others.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the
good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to
reason and is in conflict with morality.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it
means getting along with people.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we
should become less than beasts by making the noblest of
God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided
it is not based on brute force.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also
under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed
suicide.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of
time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the
blackest storm.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are
to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin
with the children.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no
place.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than
words without a heart.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid
down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral
growth.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its
own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man
as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to
the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we
should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well
to give it up.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel
themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow
beings.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and
bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be
able to save one's head.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our
hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover
impotence.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to
befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the
quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and
silver.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows
in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not
the quantity.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is
healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and
the wisest might err.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than
his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law
gives is a punishment.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life, something with which
nothing can be compared.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but
let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works
for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless
service with which nature has endowed her.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and
high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily
wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been
know to yield to the influence of love. You must never
despair of human nature.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held
superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments,
working for their fulfilment.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on
to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without
effort.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance
of all morality.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or
woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in
the purity of our hearts.
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My life is my message.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my
God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is
important that you do it.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is
cooperation with good.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one
another.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part
of our being.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of
mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of
destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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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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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the
last article of my creed.
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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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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of
punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on
love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then
the one derived from fear of punishment.
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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 not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is
daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to
have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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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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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not
worth having.
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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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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the
servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and
possessions pale into nothingness before service which is
rendered in a spirit of joy.
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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 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 an orderliness in the universe, there is an
unalterable law governing everything and every being that
exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can
govern the conduct of living beings.
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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 deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him
the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the
body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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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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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 should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so
constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or
abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and
stop.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other
party.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and
the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under
the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or
democracy?
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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 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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