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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
Mahatma Gandhi -
External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
Mahatma Gandhi