"Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh."
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"Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart."
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"Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action."
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"I have no weapon but nonviolence."
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"Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way."
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"Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India."
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"There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong."
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"Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil."
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"Labour is priceless, not gold."
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"If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts."
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"A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists."
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"In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil."
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"If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women."
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"God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority."
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"God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables."
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"Well, India is a country of nonsense"
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"A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."
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"Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings."
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"I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for."
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"Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth."
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