"The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers."
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"The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly."
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"Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason."
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"There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping."
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"Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding."
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"Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it."
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"Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates."
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"Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees."
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"The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized."
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"Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them."
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"Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world."
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"The English peace is the peace of the grave."
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"The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ."
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"Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it."
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"The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest."
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"I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it."
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"Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations."
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"All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given."
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"In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop."
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"If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done."
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