"I think it would be a good idea."
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"I think it would be a good idea."
"If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide."
"My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate."
"Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul."
"We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it."
"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
"The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it."
"Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."
"After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives."
"Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust."
"The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him."
"My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world."
"Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower."
"The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly."
"My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray."
"For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering."
"Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views."
"Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart."
"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
"Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible."