"A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast."
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"A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave."
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"Social service that savours of patronage is not service."
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"Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship."
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"A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product."
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"Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will."
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"A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia."
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"Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property."
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"For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions."
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"The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints."
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"A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate."
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"Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have."
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"Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy."
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"All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong."
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"A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope."
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"When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party."
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"God's word is : He who strives never perishes."
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"Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend."
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"The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible."
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"The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect."
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