Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 3

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
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Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
Mahatma Gandhi
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
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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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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than w
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
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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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Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God,' - this appears to be the commandment in all religions. This need not frighten anyone. He who devotes himself to service with a clear conscience, will day by day grasp the necessity for it in greater measure, and will continually grow richer in faith. The path of service can hardly be trodden by one who is not prepared to renounce self-interest, and to recognize the conditions of his birth. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large.
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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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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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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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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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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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My Life is My Message
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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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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
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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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God has no religion.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)
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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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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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Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Violence begins with the fork.
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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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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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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
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There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
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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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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
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