Mahatma Gandhi — Philosophical Quotes

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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

Philosophical

“Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”

Mean Humility Fields

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

Philosophical

“The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.”

Jesus Gita Passages

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Philosophical

“In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.”

Age Culture India

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Philosophical

“Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.”

Hands Able Labour

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Philosophical

“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.”

Men Party Arjuna

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Philosophical

“Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.”

Knowledge Tests Fruit

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Philosophical

“I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.”

Want Cost Snakes

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Philosophical

“In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.”

Running Order Gita

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Philosophical

“There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.”

Quiet Pursuit Satyagraha

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Philosophical

“Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.”

Men Evil Agents

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Philosophical

“I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.”

Believe Animal Philosophical

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Philosophical

“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

Spiritual Views Liberty

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