"The common factor of all religions is..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.
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“Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”
“You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.”
“The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.”
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“The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.”
“A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.”
“Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.”
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“Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.”
“For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.”
“The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.”