“That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all. (2) That a lawyer’s work has the same value as the barber’s inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work. (3) That a life of labour, i.e., the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman is the life worth living.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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 greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Kebijaksanaan yang paling tinggi adalah, jangan khawatir akan hari esok.”
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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
“Numerous examples have convinced me that God ultimately saves him whose motive is pure.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.”
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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
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the Swadeshi spirit underlying it. It is the most tolerant because it is non-proselytising, and it is as capable of expansion today as it has been found to be in the past.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I must confess that here I had to compromise the principle of giving no commission, which in Bombay I had so scrupulously observed. I was told that conditions in the two cases were different; that whilst in Bombay commissions had to be paid to touts, here they had to be paid to vakils who briefed you; and that here as in Bombay all barristers, without exception, paid a percentage of their fees as commission.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
