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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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God cannot be realized through intellect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.
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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
Mahatma Gandhi