Mahatma Gandhi quotes - page 3

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. View quote
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. View quote
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. View quote
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Hate the sin, love the sinner. View quote
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. View quote
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. View quote
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. View quote
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. View quote
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence. View quote
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before. (Mahatma Gandhi)
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. View quote
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. View quote
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I came to the conclusion long ago ... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu ... But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. View quote
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning. View quote
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives. View quote
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants. View quote
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. View quote
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. View quote
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet. View quote
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. View quote
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. View quote
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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. View quote
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace. View quote
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