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"I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change."
"The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members."
"For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute."
"Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life."
"I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty."
"If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's."
"It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways."
"Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice."
"If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase."
"Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man."
"An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes."
"The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity."
"In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices."
"Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property."
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour."
"I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth."
"A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress."
"For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present."
"My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice."
"I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause."
