“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word ‘trustee’.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am
invincible.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The indifference of the railway authorities to the comforts of the third-class passengers, combined with the dirty and inconsiderate habits of the passengers themselves, makes third-class travelling a trial for a passenger of cleanly ways.
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit—be detached and work—have no desire for reward and work.”
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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
“Il vaut mieux mettre son coeur dans la prière sans trouver de paroles que trouver des mots sans y mettre son coeur.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict. This is like a surgical operation. An economic war is prolonged torture. And its ravages are no less terrible than those depicted in the literature on war property so called. We think nothing of the other because we are used to its deadly effects .... The movement against war is sound. I pray for its success. But I cannot help the gnawing fear that the movement will fail if it does not touch the root of all evil-human greed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
