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  • I can as well do without my eyes, for instance, as I can do without fasts. What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

    "The Latest Fast, Young India, December 3, 1925", CWMG, vol. XXIX, p. 290.
  • To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

    Prabhu, R. K, and U. R. Rao, eds., The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi(Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1967), p. 399.
  • I wholly endorse the proposition that the congress can only rule "by reason and moral influence"? The congress will die a natural and deserved death If and when it substitutes reason and moral influences by goondaism.

    "A Criticism, Harijan, June 18, 1938", CWMG, vol. LXVII, p. 125.
  • In the code of the Satyagrahi there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

    Prabhu, R. K, and U. R. Rao, eds., The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi(Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1967), p. 171.
  • The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

    "Vykom Satyagraha, Young India, February 19, 1925", CWMG, vol. XXVI, p. 159.
  • Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

    Gandhi, M.K., Ashram Observances in Action, translated from the original Gujarati by Valji Govindji Desai.
  • A vow means unflinching determination? progress is impossible without inflexible determination.

    Gandhi, M.K., From Yeravda Mandir, translated from the original Gujarati by Valji Govindji Desai.
  • "As for my leadership, if I have it, it has not come for any seeking, it is a fruit of faithful service. A man can as little discard such leadership as he can the colour of his skin."

    "My Inconsistencies, Young India, December 13, 1930", CWMG, vol. XLII, p. 470.
  • Let hundreds like me perish, but let the truth prevail. Let us not reduce the standards of truth even by a hair's breadth for judging erring mortals like myself.

    Gandhi, M.K., "Introduction", in An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
  • The ashram was his creation as much as mine?. I could endure to be separated from all the world besides but not from Maganlal.

    Gandhi, M.K., Ashram Observances in Action, translated by Valji Govindji Desai. .
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