The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.