No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
If love wasn’t the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don’t go together any more that water and fire.
Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings – we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
Learn as if you will live forever.
Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.