"Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded."
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"Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science."
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"Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth."
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"And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation."
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"I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours."
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"In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest."
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"Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere."
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"A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death."
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"I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning."
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"The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive."
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"The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult."
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"I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you."
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"Whatever I do is out of love."
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"If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel."
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"There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat."
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"Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation."
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"How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind."
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"I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong."
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"Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."
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"There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it."
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