Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

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.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.