Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Selfless action is a source of strength.