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"We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."
"It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands."
"The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies."
"We must be the world we want to create."
"True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious."
"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."
"No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged."
"We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean."
"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."
"Jealousy does not wait for reasons."
"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment."
"My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart."
"Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world."
"High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship."
"Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa."
"If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout."
"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."
"History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance."
"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."
"Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew."