"To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution."
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"If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year."
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"I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care."
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"A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite"
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"If you want a change in the world, be the change"
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"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."
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"World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds."
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"The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves."
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"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 not have enough food and clothing."
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"Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred."
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"When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within."
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"Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality."
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"My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species."
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"I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me."
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"It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin."
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"A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse."
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"Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle."
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"He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa."
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"For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present."
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"The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress."
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