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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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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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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? 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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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
Mahatma Gandhi