"I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one"
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"Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle."
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"I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech."
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"May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body."
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"You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves."
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"I believe all war to be wholly wrong."
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"If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms."
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"One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him."
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"Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong."
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"Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?"
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"Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp."
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"God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves."
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"The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin."
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"We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth."
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"I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind."
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"There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence."
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"I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it."
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"God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him."
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"God is always the upholder of justice."
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"God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds."
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