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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
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What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
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The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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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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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
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Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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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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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.