Mahatma Gandhi quotes - page 18

Cowards can never be moral. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty with him. View quote
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. View quote
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place. View quote
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. View quote
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. View quote
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. View quote
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The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind. View quote
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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. View quote
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism. View quote
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. (Mahatma Gandhi)
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence. View quote
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Be the change you're trying to create. View quote
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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 realize that they need not fear brute force, if they would but know the soul within. View quote
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And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend. View quote
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. View quote
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I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God. View quote
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God never appears to you in person but always in action. View quote
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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world. View quote
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For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity. View quote
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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? (Mahatma Gandhi)
Real suffering, bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha. View quote
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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescribable, indefinable. View quote
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. View quote
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Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred. View quote
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