"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
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"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
"Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him."
"It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator."
"If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you."
"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."
"If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet."
"The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness."
"Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -"
"It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice."
"Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence."
"In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy."
"The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists."
"If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth."
"If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further."
"It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent."
"The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism."
"I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived."
"Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being."
"My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible."
"The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary."