Indian - Leader | October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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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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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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