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Violence begins with the fork.

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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has not...more

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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

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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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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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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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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

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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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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in...more

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