If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.