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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
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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.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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My life is my message.
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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
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The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.