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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
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The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
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Priorities lie in your actions.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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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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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.