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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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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.
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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
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I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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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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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.