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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
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The best politics is right action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
Mahatma Gandhi