"I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God."
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"The Gita is not for those who have no faith."
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"When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace."
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"My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa."
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"Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation."
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"A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences."
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"Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth."
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"My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures."
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."
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"Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit."
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"Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking."
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"For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide."
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"Ahimsa is the strongest force known."
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"Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking."
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"Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
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"One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love."
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"I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."
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"I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity."
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"Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation."
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"Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet."
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