Mahatma Gandhi quote: "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."

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Moralit...
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of th...
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and ...
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God&...
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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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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the ba...
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of...
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Peace is its own reward.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse t...
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of th...
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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Action expresses priorities.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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My life is my message.
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Self-respect knows no considerations.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes al...
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, th...
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to th...
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function nece...
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, w...
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a who...
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...
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I was reading.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their ...
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by plac...
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the stricte...
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serv...
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be red...
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war i...
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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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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, b...
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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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 mig...
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shal...
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God has no religion.
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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 be...
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The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as yo...
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
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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 m...
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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The future depends on what you do today.
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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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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent ...
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, someth...
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat co...
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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 c...
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no result...
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirt...
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that ...
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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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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, fr...
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...
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Where there is love there is life.
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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 bru...
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of th...
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwi...
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Patience means self-suffering.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is n...
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, b...
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces o...
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my...
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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of ...
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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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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...
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Hatred can be overcome only by love.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myt...
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To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dign...
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Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it...
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a ...
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and sla...
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live ...
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A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or w...
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforce...
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to ...
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it,...
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obed...
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I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitou...
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from g...
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise viole...
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviole...
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Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due t...
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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...
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ...
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I used to issue leaflets asking people to enlist as recruits. One of the arguments I had used was di...
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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 al...
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between...
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own...
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce...
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipo...
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the...
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or w...
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be purs...
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforc...
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President means chief servant.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks i...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attai...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
MAHATMA GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. Ther...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most poten...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture...
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No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
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We must become the change we want to see.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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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 ...
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slave...
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Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be ...
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I...
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the t...
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My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
MAHATMA GANDHI

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dign...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.
MAHATMA GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever condu...
MAHATMA GANDHI

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Be the change you want to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error beca...
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You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it
MAHATMA GANDHI

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it
MAHATMA GANDHI

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. Ther...
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
MAHATMA GANDHI

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 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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