In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.