“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. ”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“We measure the universe by our own miserable foot-rule. When we are slaves, we think that the whole universe is enslaved. Because we are in an abject condition, we think that the whole of India is in that condition. As a matter of fact, it is not so, yet it is as well to impute our slavery to the whole of India. But if we bear in mind the above fact, we can see that if we become free, India is free. And in this thought you have a definition of Swaraj. It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The Gita does not decide for us. But if, whenever faced with a moral problem, you give up attachment to the ego and then decide what you should do, you will come to no harm. This is the substance of the argument which Shri Krishna has expanded into 18 chapters.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Every seeker has, at one time or another, to pass through a conflict of duties, a heart-churning.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“a mother explains a point to her children over and over again in different words.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi”
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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
