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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. (Mahatma Gandhi)
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. View quote
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. View quote
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. View quote
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? View quote
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. View quote
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. View quote
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. View quote
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. View quote
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. View quote
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. (Mahatma Gandhi)
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. View quote
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. View quote
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. View quote
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To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself. And a man who aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any field of life. View quote
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I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well. View quote
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If we are to reach real peace in this world. View quote
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Such being the hold that the doctrine of the sword has on the majority of mankind, and as success of non-co-operation depends principally on absence of violence during its pendency and as my views in this matter affect the conduct of large number of people. I am anxious to state them as clearly as possible. I do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence I would advise violence. View quote
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If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'. There must be a conquest. View quote
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I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. View quote
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No cause, however just, can warrant the indiscriminate slaughter that is going on minute by minute. I suggest that a cause that demands the inhumanities that are being perpetrated today cannot be called just. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. View quote
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This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. View quote
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It will then be a state of enlightened anarchy in which each person will become his own ruler. He will conduct himself in such a way that his behaviour will not hamper the well-being of his neighbours. View quote
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This war has descended upon mankind as a curse and a warning. It is a curse inasmuch as it is brutalizing man on a scale hitherto unknown. All distinctions between combatants and noncombatants have been abolished. No one and nothing is to be spared. Lying has been reduced to an art. View quote
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