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"Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others."
"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
"The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga."
"The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science."
"It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values."
"The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life."
"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
"The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe."
"America is a country no one should go to for the first time."
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work."
"I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power."
"We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought."
"Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them."
"Most things, except agriculture, can wait"
"Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them."
"History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective."
"Great causes and little men go ill together."
"Every little thing counts in a crisis."
"...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age."
"I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government."