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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
Mahatma Gandhi -
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
Mahatma Gandhi -
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
Mahatma Gandhi -
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
Mahatma Gandhi