"The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation."
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"The path is the goal."
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"The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents."
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"God never occurs to you in person but always in action."
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"Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
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"The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man."
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"Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith."
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"Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour."
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"A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world."
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"People become what they expect themselves to become"
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"Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for."
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"Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan."
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"A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses."
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"God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship."
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"I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount."
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"The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty."
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"I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully."
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"We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies."
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"My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large."
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"A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation."
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