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"Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex."
"Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals."
"Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj."
"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
"3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation."
"No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption."
"I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence."
"Live simply that others might simply live."
"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice."
"More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it."
"Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu."
"Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller."
"Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within."
"Non-violence is the article of faith."
"Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory."
"One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals."
"To see farther, you must climb higher."
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn."
"The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality."