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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
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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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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
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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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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.