“The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I wanted to know the best of the life of one 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. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet’s biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“people continued—regardless of all that leads man forward—to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence.”
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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
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
