Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.