Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Morality is contraband in war.
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.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.