An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

by Mahatma Gandhi

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and even mortal prosecution.

Inhibitions imposed from without rarely succeed, but when they are self-imposed, they have a decidedly salutary effect.

Ahimsa is a comprehensive principle. We are helpless mortals caught in the conflagration of himsa. The saying that life lives on life has a deep meaning in it. Man cannot for a moment live without consciously or unconsciously committing outward himsa.