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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
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It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
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"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
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In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi