Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good req….

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the so….

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures..

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes..

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man..

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive..

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep..

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not..

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and te….

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible..

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism..

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else..

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put him….

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love ….

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live..

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body..

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your ….

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shamin….

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made ….

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula..

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowa….