"To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception."
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"True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most."
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"Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned."
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"Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall."
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"Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart."
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"Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions."
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"If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide."
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"My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself."
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"It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam."
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"I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it."
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"It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows."
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"True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations."
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"The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal."
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"The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions."
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"A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets."
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"All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency."
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"Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will."
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"A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb."
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"Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other."
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"Religions are different roads converging to the same point."
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