"To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa."
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"My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery."
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"The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth."
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"Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation."
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"Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it."
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"Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man."
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"The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world."
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"The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it."
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"Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force."
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"History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force."
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"Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent."
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"The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service."
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"Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa."
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"Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops."
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"A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations."
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"Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him."
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"The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong."
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"The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right."
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"If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos."
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"Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it."
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