“Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.”

Compassion is an essential element of love.

The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

When one’s eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn’t qualify.

Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.

Today there’s a new report out about how population growth is going down in the United States. Immigrant women are having fewer children. It shows that if you just let women from the developing world have the same rights – or, rather, access – that we have, they make smart decisions.

To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the ‘best family.’

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.

The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.