“The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep; no effort that you may make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. That”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we see anyone who renounces his rights in regard to worldly matters and forgives even strangers, not to speak of relations, we should think of him as a good man. If we desist from beating up a thief or any other felon, do nothing to get him punished but, after admonishing him and recovering from him the stolen article, let him go, we would be credited with humanity and our action would be regarded as an instance of non-violence; a contrary course would be looked upon as violence.”
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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
“The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
