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"A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents."
"Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war."
"Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties."
"My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action."
"I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace."
"It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission."
"I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy."
"I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion."
"We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."
"There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything."
"The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions."
"Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf."
"Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity."
"I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity."
"I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth."
"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth."
"The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for."
"With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity."
"I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor."
"I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man."