It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUFor 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.”
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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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.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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