“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I wanted to know the best of the life of one (Muhammad) who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind. I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we argue that since all bodies are perishable, one may kill, does it follow that I may kill all the women and children in the Ashram? Would I have in doing so acted according to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, merely because their bodies are perishable? What,”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
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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
