“Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Human language can but imperfectly describe God’s ways.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The people are like a flock of sheep, following where leaders lead them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The mere fact that this thought has sprung up among different nations and at different times indicates that it is inherent in human nature and contains the truth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted
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Mahatma Gandhi
