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181 " The people are like a flock of sheep, following where leaders lead them. "
― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography
182 " For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them. But I must close. I can only take up the actual story in the next chapter. M.K. Gandhi The Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad 26th November, 1925 "
183 " It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and even mortal prosecution. "
184 " I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men’s hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. "
185 " Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. "
186 " How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter? "
187 " Human language can but imperfectly describe God’s ways. "
188 " This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. "
189 " I am definitely of opinion that a public worker should accept no costly gifts. "
190 " Prayer needs no speech. It is itself independent of any sensuous effort. I "
191 " for the essence of religion is morality. "
192 " I must confess that here I had to compromise the principle of giving no commission, which in Bombay I had so scrupulously observed. I was told that conditions in the two cases were different; that whilst in Bombay commissions had to be paid to touts, here they had to be paid to vakils who briefed you; and that here as in Bombay all barristers, without exception, paid a percentage of their fees as commission. "
193 " Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. "
194 " There are some actions from which an escape is a godsend both for the man who escapes and for those about him. Man, as soon as he gets back his consciousness of right, is thankful to the Divine mercy for the escape. "
195 " Only he Who is smitten with the arrows of love, Knows its power. "
196 " Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart. "
197 " M.K. Gandhi "
198 " may not, now or hereafter, enter into a detailed account of the experiments in dietetics, for I did so in a series of Gujarati articles which appeared years ago in Indian Opinion, and which were afterwards published in the form of a book popularly known in English as A Guide to Health. Among my little books this has been the most widely read alike in the East and in the West, a thing that I have not yet been able to understand. It was written for the benefit of the readers of Indian Opinion. But I know that the booklet has profoundly influenced the lives of many, both in the East and in the West, who have never seen Indian Opinion. "
199 " But one thing took deep root in me—the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality. "
200 " It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution. Why "