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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.
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The weak can never forgive.
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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
Mahatma Gandhi