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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
Mahatma Gandhi
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
Mahatma Gandhi -
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi -
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi