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Foundation Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

10 Foundation quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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If you’re looking for a quick glimpse of how Gandhi viewed the building blocks of life and society, this handful of his words provides a solid starting point. The selection is brief, yet each line carries the weight of his philosophy, making it a useful reference for anyone curious about his foundational ideas.

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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

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With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought…

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Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real…

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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,…

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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits…

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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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