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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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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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Full effort is full victory.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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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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The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
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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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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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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.