These will suffice to show that the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of the people.

B. R. Ambedkar

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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

Winston Churchill

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When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

M. K. Gandhi

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The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection.

Swami Vivekananda

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

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