"My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers."
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"I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs."
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"I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life."
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"I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense."
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"I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village."
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"There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions."
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"Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament."
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"I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence."
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"Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual."
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"If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it."
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"God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong."
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"A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita."
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"Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions."
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"I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung."
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"Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground."
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"Where love is, there God is also."
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"The true source of rights is duty."
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"Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages."
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"Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life."
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"I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures."
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