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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
Mahatma Gandhi