“Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.”
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“In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.”
“People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.”
“Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.”
“It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.”
“No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.”
“The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.”
“That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.”
“Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.”
“When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.”
“The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals”
“Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains.”
“Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.”
“If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.”
“I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.”
“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.”
“To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.”
“Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.”
“If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.”
“I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.”