"Purity of life is the highest and truest art."
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"Service without humility is selfishness and egotism."
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"Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people."
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"My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India."
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"The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom."
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"A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect."
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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. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero."
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"Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path."
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"A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent."
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"First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time."
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"Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses."
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"The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa."
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"This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service."
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"My love of the British is equal to that of my own people."
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"Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated."
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"Idleness is the great plague of India."
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"Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever."
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"Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home."
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"Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity."
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"I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses."
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