“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The person who has the throne will not covet a position of civil or police authority.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“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
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To see Gokhale at work was as much a joy as an education. He never wasted a minute. His private relations and friendships were all for public good. All his talks had reference only to the good of the country and were absolutely free from any trace of untruth or insincerity.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
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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
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change which you want to happen to the world”
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Mahatma Gandhi
