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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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Simplicity is the essence of universality.
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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.