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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
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Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
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The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
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The path is the goal.
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
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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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We must be the world we want to create.
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Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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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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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
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Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.