"We don't use guns because we don't have guns"
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"We don't use guns because we don't have guns"
"It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man."
"Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect."
"If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races."
"Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."
"The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness."
"The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves."
"Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day."
"Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason."
"Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help."
"You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote."
"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together."
"Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action."
"To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice."
"To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions."
"Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints."
"It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means."
"The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it."
"In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience."
"'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane."