Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Buddhism in one long prayer.