"We must learn to be self-reliant and..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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“Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.”
“The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.”
“Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.”
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“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
“Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
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“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
“Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.”
“The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.”