“the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“About the same time I came in contact with another Christian family. At their suggestion I attended the Wesleyan church every Sunday. For these days I also had their standing invitation to dinner. The church did not make a favourable impression on me. The sermons seemed to be uninspiring. The congregation did not strike me as being particularly religious. They were not an assembly of devout souls; they appeared rather to be wordly-minded people, going to church for recreation and in conformity to custom. Here, at times, I would involuntarily doze. I was ashamed, but some of my neighbours, who were in no better case, lightened the shame. I could not go on long like this, and soon gave up attending the service.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The only tyrant I accept is the still, small voice within me.”
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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
“Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit—be detached and work—have no desire for reward and work.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”
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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
“It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
