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At Times Of Writing I Never Think What I Have Said Before. My Aim Is Not To Be Consistent With My Previous Statements On A Given Question, But To Be Consistent With Truth As It May Present Itself To Me At A Given Moment. The Result Has Been That I Have Grown From Truth To Truth.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi

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At Times Of Writing I Never Think What I Have Said Before. My Aim Is Not To Be Consistent With My Previous Statements On A Given Question, But To Be Consistent With Truth As It May Present Itself To Me At A Given Moment. The Result Has Been That I Have Grown From Truth To Truth.

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My Faith Is Brightest In The Midst Of Impenetrable Darkness.

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To Say That God Permits Evil In The World May Not Be Pleasing To The Ear. But If He Is Held Responsible For The Good, It Follows That He Has To Be Responsible For The Evil Too.

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Peace Between Countries Must Rest On The Solid Foundation Of Love Between Individuals.

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Man Often Becomes What He Believes Himself To Be.

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Virtue Lies In Being Absorbed In One's Prayers In The Presence Of Din And Noise.

But The Fact That I Had Learnt To Be Tolerant To Other Religions Did Not Mean That I Had Any Living Faith In God.

When I Despair, I Remember That All Through History The Way Of Truth And Love Has Always Won. There Have Been Tyrants And Murderers And For A Time They Seem Invincible, But In The End, They Always Fall... Think Of It, Always.

To Observe Morality Is To Attain Mastery Over Our Mind And Our Passions.

Those Who Are Lacking In Bhakti (devotion), Lacking In Faith, Are Ill Qualified To Interpret The Scriptures.

My Idea Of Village Swaraj Is That Is A Complete Republic, Independent Of Its Neighbors For Its Own Vital Wants, And Yet Interdependent For Many Others Which Dependence Is A Necessity.

I Have Known Many Meat Eaters To Be Far More Nonviolent Than Vegetarians.

Nothing Depends Upon The Death Of An Individual, Be He Ever So Great, But Much Depends Upon The Freedom Of India.

There Is Every Reason For Being Cautious About Founding New Universities Till India Has Digested Her Newly Acquired Freedom.

Non-violence And Truth Are Inseparable And Presuppose One Another.

There Is A Power Now Slumbering Within Us, Which Is Awakened Would Do To Evil What Light Does To Darkness.

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.

Human Language Can But Imperfectly Describe God's Ways.

God Alone Knows Absolute Truth.

Children Inherit The Qualities Of The Parents, No Less Than Their Physical Features. Environment Does Play An Important Part, But The Original Capital On Which A Child Starts In Life Is Inherited From Its Ancestors. I Have Also Seen Children Successfully Surmounting The Effects Of An Evil Inheritance. That Is Due To Purity Being An Inherent Attribute Of The Soul.

It Is Better To Allow Our Lives To Speak For Us Than Our Words.

He Who Trifles With Truth Cuts At The Root Of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He Who Is Angry Is Guilty Of Himsa.

Adversity Is The Mother Of Progress.

Ahimsa Means Infinite Love, Which Again Means Infinite Capacity For Suffering.

It Is Claimed For Satyagraha That It Is A Complete Substitute For Violence Or War.

Temple Going Is For The Purification Of The Soul.

What Has Appealed To Me Most In Tolstoy's Life Is That He Practiced What He Preached And Reckoned No Cost Too Great In His Pursuit Of Truth.

Every Worthwhile Accomplishment, Big Or Little, Has Its Stages Of Drudgery And Triumph: A Beginning, A Struggle, And A Victory.

An India Awakened And Free Has A Message Of Peace And Goodwill To A Groaning World.

Labour Is A Great Leveler Of All Distinctions.

If You Would Swim On The Bosom Of The Ocean Of Truth, You Must Reduce Yourself To A Zero.

With God As Witness, I Want To Proclaim This Truth, That The Way Of Violence Cannot Bring Swaraj, It Can Only Lead To Disaster.

God's Ways Are More Than Man's Arithmetic.

I Have Described Swaraj As Ramarajya And Ramarajya Is An Impossibility Unless We Have Thousands Of Sitas.

The Man Or The Woman Who Can Display The Nonviolence Of The Brave Can Easily Stand Against As External Invasion.

Religion Should Be Dearer Than Life Itself.

I Love Christianity, Islam And Many Other Faiths - Through Hinduism.

There Are People In The World So Hungry, That God Cannot Appear To Them Except In The Form Of Bread.

If You Do What You Enjoy Doing You'll Never Have To Work Hard.

Human Society Is A Ceaseless Growth, And Unfoldment In Terms Of Spirituality.

I Hold Flesh-food To Be Unsuited To Our Species. We Err In Copying The Lower Animal World If We Are Superior To It.

Cowardice Is Impotence Worse Than Violence. The Coward Desires Revenge But Being Afraid To Die, He Looks To Others, Maybe To The Government Of The Day, To Do The Work Of Defense For Him. A Coward Is Less Than A Man. He Does Not Deserve To Be A Member Of A Society Of Men And Women.

A Bogus Congress Register Can Never Lead You To Swaraj Any More Than A Paper Boat Can Help You To Sail Across The Padma.

Nonviolence Is The Means, The End For Everyone Is Complete Independence.

We Often Confuse Spiritual Knowledge With Spiritual Attainment. Spirituality Is Not A Matter Of Knowing Scriptures And Engaging In Philosophical Discussions. It Is A Matter Of Heart Culture, Of Unmeasurable Strength.

Capital As Such Is Not Evil; It Is Its Wrong Use That Is Evil. Capital In Some Form Or Other Will Always Be Needed.

It Is The Best Thing To Blame Ourselves When People Cannot Get On Well With Us. Boundless Charity Necessarily Includes All Or It Ceases To Be Boundless. We Must Be Strict With Ourselves And Lenient With Our Neighbors. For We Know Not Their Difficulties And What They Overcome.

What Is It But My Ahimsa That Draws Thousands Of Women To Me In Fearless Confidence?

Swaraj Means Even Under Dominion Status A Capacity To Declare Independence At Will.

Everything That We Do Is Insignificant...and...it Is Very Important That We Do It!

For Me, Rama And Rahim Are One And The Same Deity.

One Has To Speak Out And Stand Up For One's Convictions. Inaction At A Time Of Conflagration Is Inexcusable.

Only My Death Will Determine Whether I Am 'mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's Slave, Destroyer Of The Hindu Religion Or Its Servant And Protector.

He Who Does Not See God In The Next Person He Meets Need Look No Further.

A Man Who Would Interpret The Scriptures Must Have The Spiritual Discipline.

When I Admire The Wonders Of A Sunset Or The Beauty Of The Moon, My Soul Expands In The Worship Of The Creator.

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Nonviolence Of The Strong Cannot Be A Mere Policy. It Must Be A Creed, Or A Passion, If 'creed' Is Objected To.

When Every Hope Is Gone, 'when Helpers Fail And Comforts Flee,' I Find That Help Arrives Somehow, From I Know Not Where. Supplication, Worship, Prayer Are No Superstition; They Are Acts More Real Than The Acts Of Eating, Drinking, Sitting Or Walking. It Is No Exaggeration To Say That They Alone Are Real, All Else Is Unreal.

Religion Taught Us To Return Good For Evil.

A Country That Is Governed By Its National Army Can Never Be Morally Free And, Therefore, Its So-called Weakest Member Can Never Rise To His Full Moral Height.

No People Have Risen Who Thought Only Of Rights. Only Those Did So Who Thought Of Duties.

To Call Woman The Weaker Sex Is A Libel; It Is Man's Injustice To Woman. If By Strength Is Meant Brute Strength, Then, Indeed, Is Woman Less Brute Than Man. If By Strength Is Meant Moral Power, Then Woman Is Immeasurably Man's Superior. Has She Not Greater Intuition, Is She Not More Self-sacrificing, Has She Not Greater Powers Of Endurance, Has She Not Greater Courage? Without Her, Man Could Not Be. If Nonviolence Is The Law Of Our Being, The Future Is With Woman. Who Can Make A More Effective Appeal To The Heart Than Woman?

The Gita Has Become For Me The Key To The Scriptures Of The World.

Outward Appearance Is Nothing To Him If It Is Not An Expression Of The Inner.

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There Is No One Without Faults, Not Even Men Of God. They Are Men Of God Not Because They Are Faultless, But Because They Know Their Faults, They Strive Against Them, They Do Not Hide Them, And Are Ever Ready To Correct Themselves.

I Am But A Poor Struggling Soul Yearning To Be Wholly Good, Wholly Truthful And Wholly Non-violent In Thought, Word And Deed, But Ever Failing To Reach The Ideal Which I Know To Be True. It Is A Painful Climb, But Each Step Upwards Makes Me Feel Stronger And Fit For The Next.

Nobody In This World Possesses Absolute Truth. This Is God's Attribute Alone. Relative Truth Is All We Know. Therefore, We Can Only Follow The Truth As We See It. Such Pursuit Of Truth Cannot Lead Anyone Astray.

Hinduism Has Become A Conservative Religion And, Therefore, A Mighty Force Because Of The Swadeshi Spirit Underlying It.

We No Longer Have A Choice Between Violence And Non-violence. The Choice Of Today Stands Between Nonviolence Or Non-existence.

Literacy Is Not The End Of Education Nor Even The Beginning.

The Function Of Violence Is To Obtain Reform By External Means, The Function Of Passive Resistance, That Is, Soul-force, Is To Obtain It By Growth From Within, Which, In Its Turn, Is Obtained By Self-suffering, Self-purification.

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