Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.