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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.

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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

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I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

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We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and valour, so long as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.

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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

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My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby - not even money, certainly not my soul.

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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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True morality consists, not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.

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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

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A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

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True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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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.

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If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

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Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

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A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

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