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Mahatma Gandhi emphasizes non‑violence and self‑reflection as keys to freedom. He says we must stop fearing the outside world to achieve true self‑rule, and that our reactions are always our own choice. He also warns that violent means only bring violent freedom, and that true freedom must match the level of non‑violence we practice.

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Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

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If you want a change in the world, be the change

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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

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True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all…

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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be…

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The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of…

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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the…

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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

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Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to…

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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their…

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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then…

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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible…

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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world…

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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,…

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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into…

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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above…

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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the…

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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our…

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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by…

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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and…

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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate…

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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and…

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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war,…

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A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

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“The world has enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed.”

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We have to be the change we want in the world.

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An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.