The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.