Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.