Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

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.