Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

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.