"Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification."
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"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."
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"Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice."
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"If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident."
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"All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self."
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"Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man."
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"Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method."
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"Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating."
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"To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body."
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"Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service ."
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"At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves"
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"Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained."
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"The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint."
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"This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed."
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"It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government."
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"Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self."
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"It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all."
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"I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj"
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"If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence."
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"Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals."
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