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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.
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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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