"God to be God must rule the heart and transform it."
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"If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed."
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"I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India."
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"The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God.""
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"I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much."
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"Watches may disagree, but let us not."
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"A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair."
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"Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service ."
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"The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women."
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"Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty."
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"At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves"
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"Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used."
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"Never make a promise in haste."
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"Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained."
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"We have to be the change we want in the world."
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"I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments."
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"The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious"
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"Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself."
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"H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler.""
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"There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence."
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