"The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status."
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"The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel."
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"According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit."
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"Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures."
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"Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail."
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"A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal."
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"I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed."
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"What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?"
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"Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience."
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"Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible."
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"Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face."
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"Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way."
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"Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world."
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"Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect."
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"Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj."
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"It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India."
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"The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust."
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"The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God."
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"Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West."
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"The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish."
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