Tolstoy’s so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent’s statement as unworthy of trust.
The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
There is no ‘as far as possible’ on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.