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Much in his career remains unexplained if we forget his insistence that religion and politics were bound inextricably in the common search for Truth.

— George Woodcock Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

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Anarchism is a manifestation of natural human urges … it is the tendency to create authoritarian institutions which is the transient aberration.

With an extraordinary persistence he made and kept himself one of the few free men of our time.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

Gandhi was a completely unofficial man. He recognized the gulf that lay between the enjoyment of freedom and the exercise of authority.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

In the same book he became the first man willingly to claim the title of anarchist.

Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962)

Unorthodox though he might be, Gandhi fitted into the traditional pattern of the sanyassi who practices non‑attachment in the search for Truth; he was the karma yogin, the man who perfects and purifies himself through action.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

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