"Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused."
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"A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible."
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"Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."
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"To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value."
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"The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life."
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"Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge."
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"Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans."
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"Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed."
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"Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight."
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"This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs."
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"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."
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"Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever."
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"If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage."
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"Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident."
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"The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance."
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"A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha."
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"The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton."
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"The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion."
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"Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind."
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"To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy."
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