"Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation."
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"Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books."
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"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."
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"People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there."
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"True beauty consists of purity of heart."
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"I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her."
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"You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act."
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"I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength."
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"Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society."
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"An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer"
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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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"To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within."
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"Freedom and slavery are mental states."
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
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"It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."
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"Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
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"Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence."
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"Both heaven and hell are within us."
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"You can't shake hands with a closed fist."
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"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."
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