"Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden."
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"Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit."
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"Renunciation is everyone's prerogative."
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"My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya."
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"Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya."
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"Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature."
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"Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof."
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"Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step."
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"No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them."
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"Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured."
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"Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust."
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"Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles."
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"The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life."
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"All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self."
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"When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world."
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"The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things."
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"Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man."
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"My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control."
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"Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale."
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"What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence."
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