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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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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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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
Mahatma Gandhi