"If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake."
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"Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power."
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"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior."
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"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."
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"In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment."
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"God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken."
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"You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them."
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"Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time."
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"We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive."
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"No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye."
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"Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand."
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"What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan."
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"Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest."
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"We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend."
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"Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering."
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"No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority."
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"It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another."
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"Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
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"Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life."
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"The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently."
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