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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
M K Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence one ought to have the strength to die.
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Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.
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Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat
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Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.
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