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“Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.”

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“Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.”

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“A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.”

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“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”

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“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

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“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.”

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“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”

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“I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.”

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“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”

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“The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.”

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“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.”

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“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”

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“I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.”

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“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

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“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”

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“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”

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“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”

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“Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.”

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“The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.”

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“Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.”

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“In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.”

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“A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.”

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“I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.”

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“Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.”

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“A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.”

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“Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.”

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“To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.”

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“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”

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“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”

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“Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.”

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“Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.”

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“Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.”

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“Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.”

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“Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.”

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