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| 1. | 'Our bodies are the real temples rather than buildings of stone. The best place for worship is in the open with the sky above as the canopy and mother earth below for the floor' |
| 2. | 'Poverty is but the worst form of violence.' |
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| 5. | 'In order to be truly useful, self-sacrifice has to be combined with purity of motive and true knowledge. Sacrifice without these two has been known to prove ruinous to society' |
| 6. | 'Each one prays to God according to his own light.' |
| 7. | 'Truth is the first to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.' |
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| 9. | 'Man never loses by trusting and the deceiver ever loses.' |
| 10 | 'Man spoils matter much more by speech than by silence.' |
| 11. | 'Truth without humility would be an arrogant
caricature. ' |
| 12. | ‘The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.’ |
| 13. | 'So long as a single Hindu is excluded from a temple, it is an inert, lifeless shrine. The real pranapratishtha is performed when it is thrown open to all including the Harijans.' |
| 14. | 'The sole aim of journalism should be service.' |
| 15. | ‘Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.’ |
| 16. | ‘It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.’ |
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| 20. | ‘It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.’ |
| 21. | 'Those who are anxious to serve must have endless patience and tolerance. One must never seek to impose one's views on others' |
| 22. | 'A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.' |
| 23. | 'Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.' |
| 24. | ‘Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.’ |
| 25. | 'Public confession made in sincerity purifies the confessor and protects him from repetition of the wrong.' |
| 26. | 'He
who sees God everywhere and in everything, i.e. in every scripture
and in every person of every religion and sees all in God—God is
always for that person. God is never tired of him and he is always
with God.' |
| 27. | 'Love
never claims, it ever gives.' |
| 28. | ‘Your character must be above suspicion, and you must be truthful and self-controlled.’ |
| 29. | 'Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.' |
| 30. | 'True defense lies along the path of non-retaliation’ |
| 31. | 'Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.' |
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| 34. | 'Harbour impurity of mind or body and you have untruth and violence in you' |
| 35. | 'An uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy.' |
| 36. | 'I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.' |
| 37. | 'God is because Truth is.' |
| 38. | 'Hate the sin, Love the Sinner.' |
| 39. | 'Gift of life is the greatest of all gifts.' |
| 40. | 'Disobedience to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention.' |
| 41. | 'Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.' |
| 42. | 'I strive hard to preserve my physical body. Do I take the same pains to know my soul?' |
| 43. | 'A truly religious person becomes a citizen of the world.' |
| 44. | ‘Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.’ |
| 45. | 'A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.' |
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| 47. | 'Truth and love are faces of the same coin.' |
| 48. | 'Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.' |
| 49. | ‘A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.’ |
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| 51. | ‘It is through and non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God.’ |
| 52. | 'To a starving person, God will appear in the form of bread alone.' |
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| 54. | 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.' |
| 55. | 'There is a stage in life when a man does not need even to proclaim his thoughts, much less to show them by outward action. Mere thoughts act. They attain that power' |
| 56. | ‘All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.’ |
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| 58. | ‘There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.’ |
| 59. | In
this age of the atom bomb unadulterated non-violence is the only
force that can confound all the tricks put together of violence' |
| 60. | 'When all forsake you, God will be with you.' |
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| 62. | ‘It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.’ |
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| 64. | 'To seek a favour is to barter away one's freedom.' |
| 65. | ‘Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.’ |
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| 67. | 'Death is a blessing bestowed by the creator on all life, human and sub-human. Right conduct is the only right way of life which makes it bearable and even lovely.' |
| 68. | 'Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion-- human religion--but any number of faiths.' |
| 69. | ‘Faith gains in strength only when people are willing to lay down their lives for it.’ |
| 70. | ‘True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.’ |
| 71. | ‘A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.’ |
| 72. | 'Our fear paralyses our thinking power.' |
| 73. | ‘Love is the subtlest force in the world.’ |
| 74. | 'There would be no one to frighten you if you refuse to be afraid.' |
| 75. | 'No one can protect you other than God. No man can protect another.' |
| 76. | 'Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.' |
| 77. | 'The man at prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.' |
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| 79. | ‘The purpose of education is to bring out the best in you’ |
| 80. | 'It is the duty of a Government to ensure bread labour for all unemployed men and women, no matter how many they are.’ |
| 81. | 'Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.' |
| 82. | ‘Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.’ |
| 83. | 'It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.' |
| 84. | 'When a man empties his heart, God occupies.' |
| 85. | 'The true source of rights is duty.' |
| 86. | 'Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.' |
| 87. | ‘The truest test of civilization, culture, and dignity is character, not clothing.’ |
| 88. | 'Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.' |
| 89. | ‘Silence is no silence which is inspired by fear.’ |
| 90. | 'Anger, lust, and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.' |
| 91. | 'There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.' |
| 92. | 'In order to be truly useful, self-sacrifice has to be combined with purity of motive and true knowledge. Sacrifice without these two has been known to prove ruinous to society.' |
| 93. | 'The platform of service is as big as the world.' |
| 94. | 'Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.' |
| 95. | 'Truth is my God.' |
| 96. | 'Agitation is only for those who have completed their studies. While studying, the only occupation of students must be to increase their knowledge.' |
| 97. | 'In faith there is no room for despair.' |
| 98. | 'Nonviolent Non-cooperation with evil means cooperation with all that is good.' |
| 99. | 'We must become the change we want to see.' |
| 100. | 'Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.' |
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