If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.