According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.