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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

Mahatma Gandhi
Attitude, Language, British

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Self, Years

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

Mahatma Gandhi
Europe, India, Village
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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Men, Self, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

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India, Midst, States
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.155, Rajpal & Sons

Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

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Eye, Doe, Ifs
Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

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Love, Dog, Secret
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.45, A&C Black

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

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Love, Law, Followers
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.125, A&C Black

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

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Law, Acting, Circumstances
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

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Mean, Fighting, May
Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

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Prayer, Desire, Repentance
Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Long Ago, Should Have

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Has Beens
Mahatma Gandhi, Mahadev Haribhai Desai (1947). “The Nation's Voice”

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Mean, Unity

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

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Mind, Causes, Sacred
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.91, Rajpal & Sons

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

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Purity, Purification, Idle
Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mind, Weakness, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

Mahatma Gandhi
Important, Insignificant

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Believe, Law
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.59, Courier Corporation

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

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True Friend, Home, Humanity

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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Vaccines, Effort, Action
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

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Looks, Opponents, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

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Spiritual, Men, Thinking
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.135, Grove Press

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

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Peace, Truth, War
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice, May, Action
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”