The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.