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- Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown…
- That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
- Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,…
- The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
- A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from…
- I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel…
- My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows…
- Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar…
- It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even…
- I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that…
- Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
- For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally…
- I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.
- If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one…
- Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is…
- Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,…
- It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts…
- I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
- Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's…
- Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,…
- When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
- I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do…
- I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right…
- Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They…
- It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.…
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