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"If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world."
"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."
"God has no religion."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft."
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
"While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
"Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world."
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
"The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him."
"The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet."
"The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing."
"If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day."
"Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability."
"The good man is the friend of all living things."
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
"It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained."
"Wherever you are you will always be in my heart."
"There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid."
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."