3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi


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    The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

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    I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

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    The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

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    A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

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    Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

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