"Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India."
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"Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out."
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"If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation."
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"Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without."
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"A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us."
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"Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it."
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"We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right."
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"He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust."
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"Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force."
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"Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility."
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"Few men are wantonly wicked."
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"I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible."
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"I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it."
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"In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God."
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"Truth is superior to man s wisdom."
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"I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls."
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"The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice."
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"A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner."
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"... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music."
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