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People Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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A newspaper that gives voice to popular feeling shows how ideas can spread through people. The quotes stress that the state should follow the will of the people, not force it. They also link hunger and spiritual need, saying the voice of the people can be a voice of the divine.

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I will not let anyone work through my mind

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People cannot hurt you without your permission.

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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

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Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the…

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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great…

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Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand…

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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or…

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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,…

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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and…

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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their…

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I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time…

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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you…

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That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The…

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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their…

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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and…

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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has…

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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that…

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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the…

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Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for…

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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the…

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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has…

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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

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See the good in people and help them.

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People become what they expect themselves to become.

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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

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If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.