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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
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A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
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To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.
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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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I do not wish disaster to British arms.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.