"I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . ."
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Mahatma Gandhi quotes (page 94 of 159)
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"No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit."
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"Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action."
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"The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories."
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"I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty."
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"India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body."
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"Take care of this moment."
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"Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy."
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"Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering."
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"The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason."
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"If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains"
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"The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more."
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"The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status."
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"The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour."
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"I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement."
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"The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God."
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"Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith."
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"A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time."
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"When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God."
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"The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone."
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