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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Burden
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.39, A&C Black

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

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Truth, Mean, Growing

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Cost, Life Is
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Passionate, Development
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.171, A&C Black

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

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Home, Men, Becoming
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.139, Rajpal & Sons

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

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Needs, Village, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

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Village, Frontiers, Indian
Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

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Mean, Village, Bread
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

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Goes On, Village, Want

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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Reading, Writing, Giving
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

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Village, Want, Inertia
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.95, Rajpal & Sons

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

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Sick, World, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

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Violence, Mets, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Blood, Ideas
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

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Mean, Reform, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.333, Rajpal & Sons

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

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Government, Path, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Dog, Believe, Violence

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

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Snakes, Cost, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

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Violence, Lost, Superiors
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

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Writing, Answers, Vehement
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

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Women, Sacrifice, Self
Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

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World, Produce, Magician
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

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Animal, World, Cows
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

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Art, Contentment, Purity
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

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Bravery, Soul, Impossible
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.161, Tara Publishing