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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
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Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
Mahatma Gandhi
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
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Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Mahatma Gandhi