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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
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It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
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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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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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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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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.