Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
![“It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41d/swami-vivekananda-53_binding_it-is-very-difficult-to-understand-why-i_3204867.jpg)
