Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.