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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
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The path is the goal.
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One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
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The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
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When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
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Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.