“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Third-class passengers are treated like sheep and their comforts are sheep’s comforts.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe that our copying of the European dress is a sign of our degradation, humiliation and our weakness, and that we are committing a national sin in discarding a dress which is best suited to the Indian climate and which, for its simplicity, art and cheapness, is not to be beaten on the face of the earth and which answers hygienic requirements. Had it not been for a false pride and equally false notions of prestige, Englishmen here would long ago have adopted the Indian costume.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Lebe, als würdest Du morgen sterben und lerne, als ob Du ewig leben würdest.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man’s supremacy over the lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower,”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
