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That Atomic Energy Though Harnessed By American Scientists And Army Men For Destructive Purposes May Be Utilised By Other Scientists For Humanitarian Purposes Is Undoubtedly Within The Realm Of Possibility. ... An Incendiary Uses Fire For His Destructive And Nefarious Purpose, A Housewife Makes Daily Use Of It In Preparing Nourishing Food For Mankind.

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That Atomic Energy Though

Mahatma Gandhi

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That Atomic Energy Though Harnessed By American Scientists And Army Men For Destructive Purposes May Be Utilised By Other Scientists For Humanitarian Purposes Is Undoubtedly Within The Realm Of Possibility. ... An Incendiary Uses Fire For His Destructive And Nefarious Purpose, A Housewife Makes Daily Use Of It In Preparing Nourishing Food For Mankind.

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A Man Who Behaves Like A Beast Is Worse Than The Beast.

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Is She Not More Self-sacrificing, Has She Not Greater Courage? Without Her, Man Would Not Be. If Nonviolence Is To Be The Law Of Our Being, The Future Is With Women.

The Earth Has Everything For All Human Needs, But Nothing For His Greed.

Labour Is Priceless, Not Gold.

The Greatest Lessons In Life, If We Would But Stoop And Humble Ourselves, We Would Learn Not From The Grown-up Learned Men, But From The So-called Ignorant Children.

If Untouchability Lives, Hinduism Perishes And Even India Perishes, But If Untouchability Is Eradicated From The Hindu Heart, Root And Branch, Then Hinduism Has A Definite Message For The World.

Where There Is No Strength Of Mind There Can Be No Strength Of Soul.

Healthy, Well-informed, Balanced Criticism Is The Ozone Of Public Life.

My Soul Refuses To Be Satisfied So Long As It Is A Helpless Witness Of A Single Wrong Or A Single Misery.

An Unjust Law In Itself Is An Act Of Violence.

The Spirit Of Democracy Cannot Be Established In The Midst Of Terrorism, Whether Governmental Or Popular.

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Drink Is Not A Fashion In India, As It Is In The West.

Where There Is Fear There Is No Religion.

The Moment The Slave Resolves That He Will No Longer Be A Slave, His Fetters Fall. Freedom And Slavery Are Mental States.

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You Can't Hurt Me Without My Permission.

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God Does Not Punish Directly. His Ways Are Inscrutable.

The Real Love Is To Love Them That Hate You, To Love Your Neighbor Even Though You Distrust Him.

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Faith Is Like The Himalaya Mountains Which Cannot Possibly Change.

Wherever You Are You Will Always Be In My Heart.

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He Who Spins Before The Poor, Inviting Them To Do Likewise, Serves God As No One Else Does.

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It Is As Much Our Obligation Not To Cooperate With Evil As It Is To Cooperate With Good

Where Love Is, There God Is Also.

Spiritually, Compulsory Disarmament Has Made Us Unmanly, And The Presence Of An Alien Army Of Occupation, Employed With Deadly Effect To Crush In Us The Spirit Of Resistance, Has Made Us Think We Cannot Look After Ourselves Or Put Up A Defense Against Foreign Aggression, Or Even Defend Our Homes And Families.

India Must Protect Her Primary Industries Even As A Mother Protects Her Children Against The Whole World Without Being Hostile To It.

The Attainment Of National Independence Is To Me A Search For Truth.

God Has Enabled Me To Affect The Life Of The Country Since 1920 Without The Necessity Of Office.

Ahimsa Is Nothing If Not A Well-balanced, Exquisite Consideration For One's Neighbour, And An Idle Man Is Wanting In That Elementary Consideration.

The End Is Inherent In The Means.

The More I Reflect And Look Back On The Past, The More Vividly Do I Feel My Limitations.

I Have Found That Life Persists In The Midst Of Destruction And, Therefore, There Must Be A Higher Law Than That Of Destruction. Only Under That Law Would A Well-ordered Society Be Intelligible And Life Worth Living.

Since One Satan Is One Too Many For Me, I Would Not Multiply Him.

Why Worry One's Head Over A Thing That Is Inevitable? Why Die Before One's Death?

There Is No Path To Peace; Peace Is The Path.

Assumption Of Superiority By Any Person Over Any Other Is A Sin Against God And Man.

Non-co-operation In Itself Is Unnatural, Vicious And Sinful.

Power Is Of Two Kinds. One Is Obtained By The Fear Of Punishment And The Other By Acts Of Love. Power Based On Love Is A Thousand Times More Effective And Permanent Then The One Derived From Fear Of Punishment.

If We Take Care Of The Means, We Are Bound To Reach The End Sooner Or Later. When Once We Have Grasped This Point, Final Victory Is Beyond Question. Whatever Difficulties We Encounter, Whatever Apparent Reverses We Sustain, We May Not Give Up The Quest For Truth.

Man Lives Freely Only By His Readiness To Die, If Need Be, At The Hands Of His Brother, Never By Killing Him.

A Country That Is Governed By Its National Army Can Never Be Morally Free And, Therefore, Its So-called Weakest Member Can Never Rise To His Full Moral Height.

There Is No Distrust Of Men And Mankind In Me. They Will Answer Before God, So Why Should I Worry?

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It's More Important To Put The Own Heart In The Prayer Than To Put Other's Words With Nothing Of The Own Heart.

My Nonviolence Is Made Of Stern Stuff. It Is Firmer Than The Firmest Metal Known To Scientists.

God Is The Hardest Taskmaster I Have Known On This Earth And He Tries You Through And Through.

Domestic Matters Are Trifles For Us. But They Occupy The Principal Part Of My Life. They Teach Me To Know My Limitations.

Celebration Of Independence Day With Great Pomp And Show Was Quite Appropriate When We Were Fighting For Independence Which We Had Neither Seen Nor Handled. Now We Have Handled It And We Seem To Be Disillusioned. At Least - I Am, Even If You Are Not. What Are We Celebrating Today? Surely, Not Our Disillusionment.

It Is Simple Impertinence For Any Man, Or Any Body Of Men, To Begin, Or To Contemplate, Reform Of The Whole World.

Prayer Is A Sign Of Repentance, A Desire To Become Better, Purer.

A Satyagrahi Exhausts All Other Means Before He Resorts To Satyagraha.

My Own Opinion Is That Just As Fundamentally Man And Woman Are One, Their Problems Must Be One In Essence.

Life Is Greater Than All Art.

Ours Is A Civil Fight, And Imprisonment As A Civil Prisoner Has Got To Be Earned By The Strict Observance Of The Programme.

Though Philosophical Hinduism Has No Other God But God, It Cannot Be Denied That Practical Hinduism Is Not So Emphatically Uncompromising As Islam.

Journalism Has Become The Art Of "intelligent Anticipation Of Events."

Prayer Is No Mere Exercise Of Words Or Of The Ears, It Is No Mere Repetition Of Empty Formula.

I Hold That The World Is Sick Of Armed Rebellions.

The Weak Can Never Forgive. Forgiveness Is The Attribute Of The Strong.

We Have To Make Truth And Non-violence Not Matters For Mere Individual Practice But For Practice By Groups And Communities And Nations. That At Any Rate Is My Dream. I Shall Live And Die In Trying To Realize It. My Faith Helps Me To Discover New Truths Every Day.

It Is An Ever-growing Belief With Me That Truth Cannot Be Found By Violent Means.

Armed Conspiracies Against Something Satanic Is Like Matching Satans Against Satan.

Anything Which Is A Hindrance To The Fight Of The Soul Is A Delusion And A Snare, Even Like The Body Which Often Does Hinder You In The Path Of Salvation.

If I Did Not Have A Sense Of Humor, I Would Have Long Ago Killed Myself.

A True Brahmachari Will Not Even Dream Of Satisfying The Fleshly Appetite

Without Living Truth, God Is Nowhere.

Illness Or Disease Is Only Nature's Warning That Filth Has Accumulated In Some Portion Or Other Of The Body; And It Would Surely Be The Part Of Wisdom To Allow Nature To Remove The Filth, Instead Of Covering It Up With The Help Of Medicines.

I Look Upon An Increase In The Power Of The State With The Greatest Fear Because, Although While Apparently Doing Good By Minimizing Exploitation, It Does The Greatest Harm To Mankind By Destroying Individuality Which Lies At The Heart Of All Progress.

The Object Of Basic Education Is The Physical, Intellectual And Moral Development Of Children Through The Medium Of Handicraft.

Moral Development

Old As I Am In Age, I Have No Feeling That I Have Ceased To Grow Inwardly Or That My Growth Will Stop At The Dissolution Of The Flesh. What I Am Concerned With Is My Readiness To Obey The Call Of Truth, My God, From Moment To Moment, No Matter How Inconsistent It May Appear. My Commitment Is To Truth, Not To Consistency.

If We Want To Cultivate A True Spirit Of Democracy We Cannot Afford To Be Intolerant. Intolerance Betrays Want Of Faith In One's Cause.

Patience Means Self-suffering.

If A Man Were So Placed Or Could So Place Himself As To Be Absolutely Above All Dependence On His Fellow-beings He Would Become So Proud And Arrogant As To Be A Veritable Burden And Nuisance To The World.

All The Four Stages In A Man's Life Are Devised By The Seers In Hinduism For Imposing Discipline And Self-restraint.

By Spiritual Training I Mean Education Of The Heart.

Honest Disagreement Is Often A Good Sign Of Progress.

What May Appear As Truth To One Person Will Often Appear As Untruth To Another Person. But That Need Not Worry The Seeker. When There Is Honest Effort, It Will Be Realised That What Appears To Be Different Truths Are Like Apparently Different Countless Leaves Of The Same Tree.

Nonviolence, In Its Dynamic Condition Means Conscious Suffering.

True Swadeshi Is That Alone In Which All The Processes Through Which Cotton Has To Pass Are Carried Out In The Same Village Or Town.

Let Me Say That God Will Send Me The Plan When He Gives The Word As He Has Done Before Now.

Truth Is The First Thing To Be Sought For, And Beauty And Goodness Will Then Be Added Unto You.

Victory Attained By Violence Is Tantamount To A Defeat, For It Is Momentary.it Is Better To Be Violent, If There Is Violence In Our Hearts, Than To Put On The Cloak Of Nonviolence To Cover Impotence. Violence Is Any Day Preferable To Impotence. There Is Hope For A Violent Man To Become Non-violent. There Is No Such Hope For The Impotent.

To A Pure Heart All Hearts Are Pure.

If She [woman] Is Weak In Striking, She Is Strong In Suffering.

My Doctrine Means That I Must Identify Myself With Life, With Everything That Lives, That I Must Share The Majesty Of Life In The Presence Of God. The Sum-total Of This Life Is God. .. Man Is Not At Peace With Himself Until He Has Become Like Unto God. The Endeavor To Reach This State Is The Supreme, The Only Ambition Worth Having. And This Is Self-realisation. This Self-realisation Is The Subject Of The Gita, As It Is Of All Scriptures... To Be A Real Devotee Is To Realise Oneself. Self-realisation Is Not Something Apart.

Such Expression Is Impossible In A Cramped Atmosphere. As I Have No Desire To Offer Civil Disobedience I Cannot Write Freely. As The Author Of Satyagraha I Cannot, Consistently With My Profession, Suppress The Vital Part Of Myself For The Sake Of Being Able To Write On Permissible Subjects. ... It Would Be Like Dealing With The Trunk Without The Head.

Man's Triumph Will Consist In Substituting The Struggle For Existence By A Struggle For Mutual Service.

That Which You Look Upon As Your Own You May Keep Only So Long As The World Allows You To Own It.

Forgiveness Is Choosing To Love.

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What God May Have Enabled Me To Do Is But A Repayment Of Debt, And He Who Repays A Debt Deserves No Praise.

Every Fight Is One Between Different Angles Of Vision Illuminating The Same Truth.

The Fact That Mankind Persists Shows That The Cohesive Force Is Greater Than The Disruptive Force, Centripetal Force Greater Than Centrifugal.

Personally, I Hold That A Man, Who Deliberately And Intelligently Takes A Pledge And Then Breaks It, Forfeits His Manhood.

Religion Is Entirely A Personal Matter. Each One Could Approach His Creator As He Liked.

Satyagraha Does Not Begin And End With Civil Disobedience.

True Beauty Consists Of Purity Of Heart.

It Was Our Love Of Foreign Cloth That Ousted The Wheel From Its Position Of Dignity.

Constant Development Is The Law Of Life, And A Man Who Always Tries To Maintain His Dogmas In Order To Appear Consistent Drives Himself Into A False Position.

You Can Chain Me, You Can Torture Me, You Can Even Destroy This Body, But You Will Never Imprison My Mind.

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