Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
one of the founding fathers of the modern Indian state, AKA Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) 
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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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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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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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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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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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
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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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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 our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'
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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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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
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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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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but the pain of it is a positive pleasure to me. Each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
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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 that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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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 claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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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 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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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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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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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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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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Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
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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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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 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 the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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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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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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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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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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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
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My life is my message.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it
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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 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, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Peace is its own reward.
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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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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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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 good man is the friend of all living things.
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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 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 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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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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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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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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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 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 win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red -- not merely Germany and Japan.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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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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