Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.