„Az ember a gondolatai szüleménye. Amit gondol, azzá lesz.”
Eredeti: Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
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„Ha a hitem fényesen tündököl, (…) a síron túl is élni fogok, sőt mi több, hallatni a hangomat!”
Eredeti: If my faith burns bright, (...) I shall be alive in the grave, and what is more, speaking from it!
„Hindu vagyok, és egyszerre muszlim, keresztény, buddhista és zsidó.”
Eredeti: I am a hindu, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
Eredeti: Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Eredeti: The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Eredeti: Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
Válaszul egy újságíró kérdésére, hogy mi az üzenete a világnak.
Eredeti: My life is my message.
Eredeti: The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
„Ezért az ügyért képes vagyok meghalni, de nincs olyan ügy, barátom, amiért képes volnék ölni.”
Eredeti: For this cause I too am prepared to die, but for no cause, my friend, will I be prepared to kill.
„Nem lehetünk beszélők, akik nem hallgatnak. De hallgatók sem lehetünk, akik nem beszélnek.”
Eredeti: We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Eredeti: We can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.
„A kegyetlenség természetéből fakadóan nem ismer önuralmat.”
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Eredeti: The brute by nature knows no self restraint.
„A vallás a legtágabb értelemben önmegvalósítás, vagy önismeret.”
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Eredeti: Religion in its broadest sense means self-realization or knowledge of self.
„Egy bárány élete nem értéktelenebb egy emberénél.”
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Eredeti: Life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
Eredeti: It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion(…) . It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress toward peace … Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?