Tuesday, October 13, 2009
"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
"God has no religion"
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed"
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."
"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause"
"All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such"
"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result"
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
"We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right"
"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children"
"Patience means self-suffering."
"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it."
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e., the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."
"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Co-operation which needs consideration is a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind."
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
"Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy."
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it."
"Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes."