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Men Flocked To See It And Ascended It As It Was A Novelty And Of Unique Dimensions. It Was The Toy Of The Exhibition. So Long As We Are Children We Are Attracted By Toys, And The Tower Was A Good Demonstration Of The Fact That We Are All Children Attracted By Trinkets. That May Be Claimed To Be The Purpose Served By The Eiffel Tower.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Men Flocked To See It And Ascended It As It Was A Novelty And Of Unique Dimensions. It Was The Toy Of The Exhibition. So Long As We Are Children We Are Attracted By Toys, And The Tower Was A Good Demonstration Of The Fact That We Are All Children Attracted By Trinkets. That May Be Claimed To Be The Purpose Served By The Eiffel Tower.

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That Parrot's Non-co-operation With The Cage, With Its Master, Will Live For Ever Because It Looks Upon Renunciation, Non-co-operation, As A Joy.

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The Deepest Spiritual Truths Are Always Unutterable.

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Hesitating To Act Because The Whole Vision Might Not Be Achieved, Or Because Others Do Not Yet Share It, Is An Attitude That Only Hinders Progress.

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An Ideal Sanctified By The Sacrifices Of Such Master Spirits As Lenin Cannot Go In Vain, The Noble Example Of Their Renunciation Will Be Emblazoned For Ever And Quicken And Purify The Ideal As Time Passes.

One Of The Objects Of A Newspaper Is To Understand Popular Feeling And To Give Expression To It; Another Is To Arouse Among The People Certain Desirable Sentiments; And The Third Is Fearlessly To Expose Popular Defects.

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Satan's Successes Are The Greatest When He Appears With The Name Of God On His Lips.

We Are Less Than Atoms, I Say, Because The Atom Obeys The Law Of Its Being, Whereas We In The Insolence Of Our Ignorance Deny The Law Of Nature. But I Have No Argument To Address To Those Who Have No Faith.

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The Fight Of Satyagraha Is For The Strong In Spirit, Not The Doubter Or The Timid. Satyagraha Teaches Us The Art Of Living As Well As Dying.

Where There Is Only A Choice Between Cowardice And Violence, I Would Advise Violence.

Conversion Without A Clean Heart Is A Denial Of God And Religion.

I Must Not Refrain From Saying That India Can Gain More By Waiving The Right Of Punishment.

Much That We Hug Today As Knowledge Is Ignorance Pure And Simple. It Makes The Mind Wander And Even Reduces It To A Vacuity.

The Koran Says That There Can Be No Heaven For One Who Sheds The Blood Of An Innocent Neighbour.

Nonviolence Implies Voluntary Submission To The Penalty For Non-co-operation With Evil.

Unexampled Bravery, Born Of Nonviolence, Coupled With Strict Honesty Shown By A Fair Number Of Muslims, Is Sure To Infect The Whole Of India.

India Must Learn To Live Before She Can Aspire To Die For Humanity.

An Education Which Does Not Teach Us To Discriminate Between Good And Bad, To Assimilate The One And Eschew The Other, Is A Misnomer

Swaraj, Without Any Qualifying Clause, Includes That Which Is Better Than The Best One Can Conceive Or Have Today.

In This Instance Of The Fire-arms, The Asiatic Has Been Most Improperly Bracketed With The Native. The British Indian Does Not Need Any Such Restrictions As Are Imposed By The Bill On The Natives Regarding The Carrying Of Fire-arms. The Prominent Race Can Remain So By Preventing The Native From Arming Himself. Is There A Slightest Vestige Of Justification For So Preventing The British Indian?

If We Know How Much Passive Violence We Perpetrate Against One Another, We Will Understand Why There Is So Much Physical Violence Plaguing Societies And The World.

The Mundane Use Of The Gayatri, Its Repetition For Healing The Sick, Illustrates The Meaning We Have Given To Prayer.

A Samagra Gramsevak Must Know Everybody Living In The Village And Render Them Such Service As He Possibly Can.

The Fullest Life Is Impossible Without An Immovable Belief In A Living Law In Obedience To Which The Whole Universe Moves.

Man Is Not At Peace With Himself Till He Has Become Like Unto God.

Self Realisation

Britain's Success In The Exploitation Of Non-european Races Raised The Ambition Of Bismarck And Later Mussolini And Others.

Those Who Have Their Hands Dyed Deep In Blood Cannot Build A Nonviolent Order For The World.

God Always Saves The World From The Consequences Of Unintended Errors Of Men Who Live In Fear Of Him.

I Claim That In Losing The Spinning Wheel We Lost Our Left Lung. We Are, Therefore, Suffering From Galloping Consumption. The Restoration Of The Wheel Arrests The Progress Of The Fell Disease.

A True Life Lived Amongst The People Is In Itself An Object-lesson That Must Produce Its Own Effect Upon Immediate Surroundings.

I Do Not Want To Foresee The Future. I Am Concerned With Taking Care Of The Present. God Has Given Me No Control Over The Moment Following.

For Thousands To Do To Death A Few Hundreds Is No Bravery. It Is Worse Than Cowardice. It Is Unworthy Of Nationalism, Of Any Religion.

He Who Atones For Sins Never Calculates; He Pours Out The Whole Essence Of His Contrite Heart.

Man Often Becomes What He Believes Himself To Be. If I Keep On Saying To Myself That I Cannot Do A Certain Thing, It Is Possible That I May End By Really Becoming Incapable Of Doing It. On The Contrary, If I Have The Belief That I Can Do It, I Shall Surely Acquire The Capacity To Do It Even If I May Not Have It At The Beginning.

Is A Civilization Worth The Name, Which Requires, For Its Existence The Very Doubtful Prop Of A Racial Legislation And A Lynch Law?

Truth Has Drawn Me Into The Field Of Politics; And I Can Say Without The Slightest Hesitation, And Yet In All Humility, That Those Who Say That Religion Has Nothing To Do With Politics Do Not Know What Religion Means.

Whatever One Does Cheerfully Is Good For Health.

The Only Way By Which You And I Can Wean Orthodox Hindus From Their Bigotry Is By Patient Argument And Correct Conduct.

People Become What They Expect Themselves To Become

The Law Of Love Could Be Best Understood And Learned Through Little Children.

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.

I Believe In Advaita, I Believe In The Essential Unity Of Man And For That Matter Of All That Lives.

Every Hindu Boy And Girl Should Possess Sound Samskrit Learning.

It Is Claimed For Satyagraha That It Is A Complete Substitute For Violence Or War.

What Is Truth? A Difficult Question; But I Have Solved It For Myself By Saying That It Is What The 'voice Within' Tells You.

Difficult Questions

Hinduism Is A Living Organism Liable To Growth And Decay Subject To The Laws Of Nature. One And Indivisible At The Root, It Has Grown Into A Vast Tree With Innumerable Branches. The Changes In The Season Affect It. It Has Its Autumn And Its Summer, Its Winter And Its Spring. It Is, And Is Not, Based On Scriptures. It Does Not Derive Its Authority From One Book. Non Violence Has Found The Highest Expression And Application In Hinduism.

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My Work Will Be Finished If I Succeed In Carrying Conviction To The Human Family That Every Man Or Woman, However Weak In Body, Is The Guardian Of His Or Her Self-respect And Liberty.

Man Cannot Be Transformed From Bad To Good Overnight.

Mankind Is Notoriously Too Dense To Read The Signs That God Sends From Time To Time. We Require Drums To Be Beaten Into Our Ears, Before We Should Wake From Our Trance And Hear The Warning And See That To Lose Oneself In All, Is The Only Way To Find Oneself.

I Object To Violence Because When It Appears To Do Good, The Good Is Only Temporary; The Evil It Does Is Permanent.

...service Can Have No Meaning Unless One Takes Pleasure In It. When It Is Done For Show Or For Fear Of Public Opinion, It Stunts The Man And Crushes His Spirit. Service Which Is Rendered Without Joy Helps Neither The Servant Nor The Served.

The Word 'defeat' Is Not To Be Found In My Dictionary, And Everyone Who Is Selected As A Recruit In My Army May Be Certain That There Is No Defeat For A Satyagrahi.

Nonviolence Is A Plant Of Slow Growth, It Grows Imperceptibly But Surely.

It Is Derogatory To The Dignity Of Mankind, It Is Derogatory To The Dignity Of India, To Entertain For One Single Moment Hatred Towards Englishmen.

Even If The Whole Of India, Ranged On One Side, Were To Declare That Hindu-muslim Unity Is Impossible, I Will Declare That It Is Perfectly Possible.

We May Not Be God, But We Are Of God, Even As A Little Drop Of Water Is Of The Ocean.

The Power Of Unarmed Nonviolence Is Any Day Far Superior To That Of Armed Force.

Exercise Of Faith Will Be The Safest Where There Is A Clear Determination Summarily To Reject All That Is Contrary To Truth And Love.

The Spinning Wheel Is Not Meant To Oust A Single Man Or Woman From His Or Her Occupation.

I Am Not Anti-english, I Am Not Anti-british, I Am Not Anti-any Government, But I Am Anti-untruth, Anti-humbug And Anti-injustice.

If You Want Something Done, Ask. If You Want Something Done Quickly, Ask, And Then Begin Counting Down From Ten With No Explanation.

The Allah Of Islam Is The Same As The God Of Christians And The Ishwar Of Hindus.

Celibacy Is A Great Help, Inasmuch As It Enables One To Lead A Life Of Full Surrender To God.

Our Ability To Reach Unity In Diversity Will Be The Beauty And The Test Of Our Civilization.

I Have But Shadowed Forth My Intense Longing To Lose Myself In The Eternal And Become Merely A Lump Of Clay In The Potter's Divine Hands So That My Service May Become More Certain Because Uninterrupted By The Baser Self In Me.

My Religion And My Patriotism Derived From My Religion, Embrace All Life.

Don't Talk About It. The Rose Doesn't Have To Propagate Its Perfume. It Just Gives It Forth, And People Are Drawn To It. Live It, And People Will Come To See The Source Of Your Power.

Anger, Lust And Such Other Evil Passions Raging In The Heart Are The Real Untouchables.

The Only Force At The Disposal Of Democracy Is That Of Public Opinion.

God Is Always The Upholder Of Justice.

Untouchability Is An Error Of Long Standing.

The Richest Grace Of Ahimsa Will Descend Easily Upon The Owner Of Hard Discipline.

Truth And Nonviolence Demand That No Human Being May Debar Himself From Serving Any Other Human Being, No Matter How Sinful He May Be.

It Will Be Hard To Find A Parallel In History In Which Unarmed People Have Represented The Urge For Freedom, Turning Their Armlessness Into The Central Means For Deliverance.

Meditation Is Waiting On God.

The Bhagavad-gita Calls On Humanity To Dedicate Body, Mind And Soul To Pure Duty And Not To Become Mental Voluptuaries At The Mercy Of Random Desires And Undisciplined Impulses.

Cow Protection To Me Is Infinitely More Than Mere Protection Of The Cow.

You Cannot Succeed In One Department Of Life While Cheating On Another, Life Is An Indivisible Whole.

Satan's Snares Are Mostly Subtly Laid And Are The Most Tempting When The Dividing Line Between Right And Wrong Is So Thin As To Be Imperceptible.

In The Secret Of My Heart I Am In Perpetual Quarrel With God That He Should Allow Such Things [as The War] To Go On. My Non-violence Seems Almost Impotent. But The Answer Comes At The End Of The Daily Quarrel That Neither God Nor Non-violence Is Impotent. Impotence Is In Men. I Must Try On Without Losing Faith Even Though I May Break In The Attempt.

There Is Only One God For Us All, Whether We Find Him Through The Koran, The Zend-avesta, The Tolmud, Or The Gita.

Without Proper, Careful Organisation Of The Spinning Wheel And Khaddar, There Is Absolutely No Civil Disobedience.

The Only Virtue I Want To Claim Is Truth And Nonviolence.

Real Power Does Not Consist In The Ability To Inflict Capital Punishment Upon The Subjects, But In The Will And The Ability To Protect The Subjects Against The World.

I Do Not Consider Hitler To Be As Bad As He Is Depicted. He Is Showing An Ability Which Is Amazing And He Seems To Be Gaining His Victories Without Much Bloodshed.

Khaddar Does Not Displace A Single Cottage Industry.

Hatred Is Never Overcome By Hatred But By Love.

God Alone Knows Absolute Truth.

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