"Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest."
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"No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties."
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"He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty."
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"A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt."
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"If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek."
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"Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty."
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"The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat."
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"Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world."
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"If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done."
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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. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour."
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"The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction."
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"Earth and heaven are in us"
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"For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity."
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"A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast."
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"My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics."
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"Nothing enduring can be built on violence."
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"When the ego dies, the soul awakes."
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"For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India . . . My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will."
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"It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking."
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"Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility."
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