“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay. And no scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Dobbiamo diventare il cambiamento che vogliamo vedere.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There is only one desire in life which is good and the desire for the means to realise it is also good.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter how well one cultivates vairagya or how diligent one is in performing good actions or what measure of bhakti, devotion, one practises, one will not shed the sense of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ till one has attained knowledge. One can attain self-realisation only if one sheds this attachment to the ego. Only when this ‘I’ is done away with can one attain self-realisation. A man’s devotion to God is to be judged from the extent to which he gives up his stiffness and bends low in humility. Only then will he be, not an impostor, but a truly illumined man, a man of genuine knowledge.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
