"Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful."
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"The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life."
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"A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists."
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"If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian."
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"The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar."
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"The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work."
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"God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption."
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"If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise."
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"Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers."
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"To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty."
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"He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does."
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"Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness."
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"I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone."
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"What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you."
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"I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge."
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"Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality."
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"To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith."
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"A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition."
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"Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad."
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"In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible."
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