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Spirit Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

58 Spirit quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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The spirit of democracy cannot be built in the midst of terrorism, according to the quotes. They say that true service must be joyful, not forced. They also warn that intolerance acts like violence and blocks a peaceful spirit. They also stress that non‑violence should guide a nation.

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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

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Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

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Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

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To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the…

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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

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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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It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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

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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness…

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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if…

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In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To…

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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean…

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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public…

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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a…

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A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that…

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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush…

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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim…

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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or…

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A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind,…

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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain…

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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

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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.