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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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President means chief servant.
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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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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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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.