"True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth."
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"Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter."
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"Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient."
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"Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength."
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"Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress."
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"The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj."
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"I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree."
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"The Law which governs all life is God."
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"The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name."
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"The Law and the Lawgiver are one."
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"The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents."
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"The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too."
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"The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields."
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"My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals."
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"Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa."
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"Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any."
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"The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa."
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"Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God."
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"Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill."
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"Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly."
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