There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.