The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.