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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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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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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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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?
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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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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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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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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.