“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

What we need is a generation of peace.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.