Top 100 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
#1. Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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#2. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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#3. All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
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#4. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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#5. It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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#6. Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
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#7. The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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#8. 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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#10. The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
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#11. I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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#12. My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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#13. 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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#14. The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.
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#15. An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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#16. Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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#17. Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
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#18. Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.
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#19. Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.
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#21. Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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#22. The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
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#24. Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.
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#25. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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#26. Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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#27. Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
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#28. You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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#29. A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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#30. I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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#31. Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
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#32. The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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#33. God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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#34. I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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#35. There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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#36. I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.
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#38. My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.
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#39. The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.
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#40. The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
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#41. I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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#42. Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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#43. To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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#46. I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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#47. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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#48. Writing it is itself one of the experiments with truth. One
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#49. No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
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#50. When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence
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#51. Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
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#52. Europe I travelled third - and only once first, just to see what it was like - but there I noticed no such difference between the first and the third-classes. In South Africa third-class passengers are mostly Negroes, yet the third-class comforts are better there than here.
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#53. If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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#54. No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
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#55. We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil ... Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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#56. A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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#57. Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
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#58. Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
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#59. We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
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#60. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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#61. Service of the poor has been my heart's desire, and it has always thrown me amongst the poor and enabled me to identify myself with them.
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#62. Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
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#63. The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious
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#64. Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
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#66. In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
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#68. The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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#69. My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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#70. A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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#71. Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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#73. No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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#74. Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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#75. You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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#76. When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
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#77. Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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#78. My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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#79. Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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#80. Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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#81. Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.
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#82. The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
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#85. The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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#86. A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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#89. There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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#90. True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
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#91. Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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#92. My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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#93. Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
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#94. Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
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#95. I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ...
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#96. I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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#97. If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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#98. Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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#99. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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