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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Selfless action is a source of strength.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.
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Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.
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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
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Love never claims, it ever gives.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.