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The movement has been conceived so as to minimize the evil wrought by the craze for amassing large fortunes through the use of dead tools in order to avoid having to deal with very sensitive human tools.
-Gandhi from a booklet called "Village Industries."
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Those who believe in the justice of their cause need to possess boundless patience.
-Gandhi, Young India, April 28th, 1929.
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I am satisfied that many Englishmen and Indian officials honestly believe that they are administering one of the best systems devised in the world.
-"The Selected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi," edited by Ronald Duncan.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. –
Gandhi, from, "Mahatma Volume 7."
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Suspicion is the brood of violence. Nonviolence cannot but trust.
-Gandhi, "Young India," May 20th, 1925
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All obstacles in our path will vanish if only we observe the golden rule that we must not be impatient with those whom we consider to be in error. But we must be prepared if need be to suffer in our own person.
-"Gandhiji's Dialogue with Christianity."
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These difficulties were only passing, for the strict observance of the vow produced an inward relish distinctly more healthy, delicate, and permanent.
-Gandhi, his autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments With Truth."
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth, even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
-Gandhi, September 22nd, 1946
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I would use the most deadly weapons if I believe that they would destroy it. I refrain only because the use of such weapons would only perpetuate the system, though it may destroy its present administrators.
-Gandhi, Young India, March 17th, 1927.
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My philosophy, if I can be said to have any, excludes the possibility of harm to one's cause by outside agencies.
-Gandhi, July 25th, 1936
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Nonviolence Daily is a thought-for-the-day from Gandhi with a short and inspiring commentary from Professor Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence.