“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But I could not for the life of me find out a new name, and therefore offered a nominal prize through Indian Opinion to the reader who made the best suggestion on the subject. As a result Maganlal Gandhi coined the word Sadagraha (Sat: truth, Agraha: firmness) and won the prize. But in order to make it clearer I changed the word to Satyagraha which has since become current in Gujarati as a designation for the struggle.”
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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
“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“had read the laws, but not learnt how to practise law.”
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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
“A vakil should know human nature. He should be able to read a man’s character from his face. And every Indian ought to know Indian history.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified..”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next. ”
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Mahatma Gandhi
