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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
Mahatma Gandhi