"Life will not be a pyramid with..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
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“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
“Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.”
“It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.”
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“I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.”
“Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.”
“To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.”
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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.”
“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”
“The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.”