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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
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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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
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Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
