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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
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Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
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At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.
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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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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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Love is the law of life.
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It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
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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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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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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.
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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Simplicity is the essence of universality.
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Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.
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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
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My religion has no geographical limits.