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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.
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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
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I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.