"Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species."
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"A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults."
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"I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them."
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"May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you."
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"I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible."
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"A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction."
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"If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may."
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"At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth."
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"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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"The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents."
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"However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India."
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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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"I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India."
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"Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called."
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"We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life."
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"The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi."
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"Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within."
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"Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be."
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"The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God.""
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"Watches may disagree, but let us not."
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