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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind."
"Where there is love there is life."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it."
"If you do nothing there will be no results"
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
"Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak."
"A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth."
"The soul of India lives in its villages."
"My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear."
"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day."
"Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society."
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
"Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers."
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."