“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learnt the lesson on non-violence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her, and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No one has attained his goal without action. Even men like Janaka attained salvation through action.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I realised that even a man’s reforming zeal ought not to make him exceed his limits. I also saw that in thus lending trust-money I had disobeyed the cardinal teaching of the Gita, viz., the duty of a man of equipoise to act without desire for the fruit. The error became for me a beacon-light of warning.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“That matchless remedy (for self realisation) is renunciation of fruits of action.”
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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
“in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.”
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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
“The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
