"True ahimsa should wear a smile even..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
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“Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.”
“My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.”
“The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.”
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“Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.”
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“I believe all war to be wholly wrong.”
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“True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.”
“If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.”
“The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.”