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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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Life is greater than all art.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
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The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
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Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.