"If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise."
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"Patience means self-suffering."
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"If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality."
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"It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt."
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"A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied."
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"I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice."
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"My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious."
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"Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj."
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"There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity."
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"No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world."
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"I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience."
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"If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."
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"Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma."
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"If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also."
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"A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly."
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"Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view"
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"Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke."
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"Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation."
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"If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
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"What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver."
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