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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
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Take care of this moment.
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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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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
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The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
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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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A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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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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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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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.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
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My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.