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My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a gi...more

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One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their rep...more

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Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their stan...more

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute tha...more

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more e...more

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but jus...more

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What barrier is there that love cannot break?

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While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joine...more

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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself...more

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer...more

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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.