Swami Vivekananda

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.