The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.