"Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India."
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"Find purpose. The means will follow."
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"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."
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"If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering."
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"Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals."
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
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"Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words."
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
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"I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price."
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"The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."
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"Be the change you want to see."
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"In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self."
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"That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy."
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"I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease."
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"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
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"Live simply so that others may simply live."
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"You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole."
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"Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction."
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"The future of India lies in its villages"
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"Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible."
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