Best Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (Top 10)
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Be the change that you want to see
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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More Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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God has no religion.
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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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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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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The future depends on what you do today.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
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Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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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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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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Action expresses priorities.
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My life is my message.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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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 problems.
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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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We must become the change we want to see
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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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, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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Hatred can be overcome only by love.
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.'"Mahatma Gandhi
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Live simply so that others may simply live.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
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Be the change you want to see.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
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If you don't ask, you don't get it
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
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Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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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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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
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I think it would be a good idea.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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President means chief servant
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
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Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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