"In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?"
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"The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification."
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"Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa."
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"To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction."
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"Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled."
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"If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief."
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"You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live."
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"When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within."
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"I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me."
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"What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face."
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"All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint."
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"A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer."
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"To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception."
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"The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium."
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"My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice."
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"Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures."
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"At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting."
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"Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food."
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"Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature."
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"Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination."
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