"I must refuse to believe that the..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.
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“A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.”
“A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.”
“Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.”
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“Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”
“Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.”
“Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.”
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“Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.”
“Air power may either end war or end civilization.”
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”