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"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
"Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women."
"Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants."
"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds."
"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
"Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes."
"Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'."
"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."
"There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone."
"Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end."
"The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ."
"There is no god higher than truth."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."
"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him."
"Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer."
"To a pure heart all hearts are pure."
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
"Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit."
"Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections."