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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mohandas Gandhi
Conscience
Court
Justice
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi
Greed
Man
World
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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Being
Blind
Law
Living
Universe
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Man
Welfare
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi
Tomorrow
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mohandas Gandhi
Death
Lust
Martyr
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
Change
Heart
Democracy
Spirit
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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Morality
Man
Purity
Woman
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Brother
Killing
Man
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Anger
Forget
Lies
Man
Sleep
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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Nature
Love
Despair
Evil
Human nature
Influence
Yield
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Society
Men
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Nature
Man
Service
Spirit
Woman
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Authority
Effort
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mohandas Gandhi
Heart
Being
Will