“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
“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“had read the laws, but not learnt how to practise law.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have no doubt that the ideal is for public institutions to live, like nature, from day to day. The institution that fails to win public support has no right to exist as such.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A person who is of fixed mind in a small matter can be so even in a big matter. If he is asked to make an ellipsoid of clay and concentrate on it, he would do so. In trying to concentrate on any object, one is likely to be distracted by all manner of troublesome thoughts. A person to whom this happens may be described as one whose intellect is not fixed on one aim. One who would succeed in the yoga of works must be of a fixed mind in small matters as well as big.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
