“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are as many different religions as there are individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There is only one desire in life which is good and the desire for the means to realise it is also good.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
