Top 100 Quotes About Mahatma
#1. To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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#2. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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#3. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
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#5. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
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#6. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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#7. If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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#9. Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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#10. A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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#11. Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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#13. The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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#14. An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
Natalya Vorobyova
#15. What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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#16. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
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#17. Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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#18. Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.
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#19. The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
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#20. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.
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#22. No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.
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#23. The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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#24. Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.
William Donaldson
#25. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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#26. A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
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#28. I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
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#29. Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
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#30. My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
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#31. My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
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#32. The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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#33. A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
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#34. One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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#35. Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
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#36. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
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#37. The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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#38. It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
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#39. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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#40. If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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#41. I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
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#42. Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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#43. Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
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#45. Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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#46. Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
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#47. Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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#48. It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.
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#50. When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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#51. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
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#52. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
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#53. For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.
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#54. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
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#55. Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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#56. A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
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#57. No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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#58. India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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#59. I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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#60. 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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#63. 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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#64. Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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#65. True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
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#66. It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
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#67. I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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#68. I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.
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#69. Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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#70. Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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#72. I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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#73. To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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#74. No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose
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#75. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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#76. I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
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#77. For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
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#78. When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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#79. Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
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#80. Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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#81. The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
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#82. The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.
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#83. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
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#84. It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
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#85. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
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#87. In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
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#88. To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.
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#89. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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#90. I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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#91. The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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#92. Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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#93. In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
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#94. Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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#96. An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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#98. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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#99. Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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#100. With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.
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