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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.