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Used Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

16 Used quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi offers 16 concise reflections on the moral dimensions of being used. He frames the experience as a call to non‑violent resistance and inner strength, urging readers to respond with compassion rather than resentment. The tone is calm, firm, and rooted in principle.

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Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest…

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Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap…this system of treatment should be used.

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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness…

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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is…

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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and…

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Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,…

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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son…

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over…

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the…

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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the…

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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to…

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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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