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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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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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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
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Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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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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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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Let us work together for unity and love.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.
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There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
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Take care of this moment.
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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.