"Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy."
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"The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent."
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"[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants."
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"Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will."
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"Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex."
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"What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life."
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"A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital."
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"Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you."
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"There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel."
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"We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time."
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"I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties."
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"Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights."
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"A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time."
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"All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry."
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"It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana."
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"Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them."
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"The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it."
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"A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height."
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"The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science."
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"When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country."
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