Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.