“It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“L'humanité court à son suicide si le monde n'adopte pas la non-violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Words like aparigraha (non-possession) and samabhava (equability) gripped me. How to cultivate and preserve that equability was the question.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The mere fact that this thought has sprung up among different nations and at different times indicates that it is inherent in human nature and contains the truth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is impossible in this body to follow ahimsa fully. Violence is inescapable. While the eyes wink and nails have to be pared, violence in one form or another is unavoidable. Evil is inherent in action, says the Gita. Arjuna did not, therefore, raise the question of violence and nonviolence. He simply raised the question of distinction between kinsmen and others, much in the same way that a fond mother would advance arguments favouring her child.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
