"Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"Let our lives be open books for all to study."
"The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence)."
"Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness"
"What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?"
"You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals"
"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."
"Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave."
"The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals"
"All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles."
"The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose."
"It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion."
"In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony."
"To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record."
"My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin."
"My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own."
"The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy."
"Nonviolence requires great patience."
"Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness."
"Nonviolence is the summit of bravery."
"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."