“You civilised fellows are all cowards. Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To Believe is something, and do not live it, is dishonest..”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“How was one to treat alike insulting, insolent and corrupt officials, co-workers of yesterday raising meaningless opposition, and men who had always been good to one?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learnt the lesson on non-violence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her, and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
