“I had learnt at the outset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. One could rely on people’s promises in most matters except in respect of money.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are moments in your life when you must act even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are some actions from which an escape is a godsend both for the man who escapes and for those about him. Man, as soon as he gets back his consciousness of right, is thankful to the Divine mercy for the escape.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Du und ich: Wir sind eins. Ich kann dir nicht wehtun, ohne mich zu verletzen.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
