Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.