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.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.