“I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.”
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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
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Chiar şi cel mai mic neadevăr îl strică pe om, la fel cum o picătură de otravă poate strica un lac întreg.”
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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
“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Only he Who is smitten with the arrows of love, Knows its power.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi — samadhi means fixing the mind on God — he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world.”
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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
“The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Ahimsa necessarily includes truth and fearlessness.”
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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
