“But here the physical battle is only an occasion for describing the battlefield that is the human body.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A devotee of Truth may not do anything in deference to convention. He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe that our copying of the European dress is a sign of our degradation, humiliation and our weakness, and that we are committing a national sin in discarding a dress which is best suited to the Indian climate and which, for its simplicity, art and cheapness, is not to be beaten on the face of the earth and which answers hygienic requirements. Had it not been for a false pride and equally false notions of prestige, Englishmen here would long ago have adopted the Indian costume.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word ‘trustee’.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Du und ich: Wir sind eins. Ich kann dir nicht wehtun, ohne mich zu verletzen.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“These unpleasant habits commonly include throwing of rubbish on the floor of the compartment, smoking at all hours and in all places, betel and tobacco chewing, converting of the whole carriage into a spittoon, shouting and yelling, and using foul language, regardless of the convenience or comfort of fellow-passengers.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
