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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
"But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors."
"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."
"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
"Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical."
"I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another."
"If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?"
"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."
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