“With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“world has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“[We] need the same advice that was given to Martha. If we but do “the one thing needful,” there is no occasion for us to be “anxious and troubled” about the many things in the shape of wanting to know what our Governors will do, or who the next Prime Minister is likely to be, or what laws affecting us are likely to be passed
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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
“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...”
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Mahatma Gandhi
