"However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India."
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"Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English."
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"Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land."
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"If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife."
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"A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa."
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"In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa."
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"Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours."
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"The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline."
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"The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God."
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"My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application."
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"Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization."
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"Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam."
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"This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason."
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"The sum total of karma is God."
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"The sum of all that lives is God."
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"The power we call God defies description."
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"The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God."
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"Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God."
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"Man can only describe God in his own poor language."
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"Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind."
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