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On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a mas...

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We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

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I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We sho...

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If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about gi...

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Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men...

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[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open lette...

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While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing ...

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David GraeberThe Democracy Project: A History

Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because “friends react on one another” and through lo...

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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who...

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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for i...

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

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

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My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent...

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

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong ...

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their one...

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Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the ...

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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 bru...

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

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be serv...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in d...

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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, b...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, fr...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote...

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