• Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
• Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
• Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.
• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
• I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but the pain of it is a positive pleasure to me. Each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
• Self-respect knows no considerations.
• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
• No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
• That service is the nobelest which is rendered for its own sake.
• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
• God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
• Love never claims, it evert gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

• Written by M Kiran Kumar.
• In category General Reference.
• 15 years ago.

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