Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 2

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen
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Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
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Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
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Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.
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But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me.
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My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.
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I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
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I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready.
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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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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Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.
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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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The future depends on what we do in the present.
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The future depends on what you do today.
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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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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23)
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Live simply so others may simply live
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
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