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"I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
"It was the cowards who died many times before their death."
"No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose"
"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
"What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within."
"I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism."
"I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation."
"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."
"A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him."
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings."
"Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather."
"The weak can never forgive."
"Let us work together for unity and love."
"Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats."
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."