"Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith."
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"When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete."
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"To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God."
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"War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing."
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"Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country."
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"Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker."
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"The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause."
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"Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self."
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"The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private."
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"To know music is to transfer it to life."
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"The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions."
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"The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy."
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"God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable."
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"It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity."
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"The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world."
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"I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress."
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"That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it."
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"There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich."
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"Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin."
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"The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed."
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