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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
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Love is the subtlest force in the world.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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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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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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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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No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.
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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.