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Mean Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

116 Mean quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi’s reflections on meanness are a study in restraint and moral clarity. Across 116 excerpts he contrasts harshness with his steadfast belief in non‑violence, offering a steady compass for anyone wrestling with the darker side of human nature.

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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

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Violent means will give violent freedom.

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Waiting on God means increasing purity.

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President means chief servant

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Find purpose. The means will follow.

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As the means, so the end.

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The end is inherent in the means.

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Means are ends in the making

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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

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Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

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Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence…

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

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Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till…

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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

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The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should…

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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to…

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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it…

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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should…

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A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against…

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight…

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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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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be…

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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment.…

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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted…

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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man…

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying…

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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he…

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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life…

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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

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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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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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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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