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Quotes by Leader

"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."

"Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, you're seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving."

"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet."

"The Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness."

"I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come."

"The moment passed - but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. " But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes."

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."

"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

"Is this an ego high or a peaceful high?"

"I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being."

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

"You only lose what you cling to."

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

"I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love."

"Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both."

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

"Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long."

"What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis."

"The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices."

"Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity"
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