“Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. ”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“world has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
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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
“I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
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Mahatma Gandhi