"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
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"Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt."
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"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."
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"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."
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"A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control."
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"I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability."
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry."
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"I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings."
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"My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by."
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"Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this.""
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"Love is the law of life."
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"Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be."
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"If you want real peace in the world, start with children."
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"Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God."
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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher"
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"Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government."
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"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
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"When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible."
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"Each one prays to God according to his own light."
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"Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray."
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