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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
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A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
Mahatma Gandhi