I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
From Mahatma Gandhi
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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 the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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