Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
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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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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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Truth is the right designation of God.
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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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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.