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"Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists."
"A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed."
"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality."
"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace."
"Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society."
"Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise."
"Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself."
"I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class."
"The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
"Morality is contraband in war."
"There's no God higher than truth."
"My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith."
"The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?"
"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
"I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal."
"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."
"My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity."
"In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery."
"Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals."