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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi