“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I am of opinion that all exclusive intimacies are to be avoided; for man takes in vice far more readily than virtue. And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A moral life, without reference to religion, is like a house built upon sand. And religion, divorced from morality, is like “sounding brass, good only for making a noise and breaking heads.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The aim of the sinless One lies in not doing evil unto those who have done evil unto him.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.”
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Mahatma Gandhi