Democracy and violence can ill go together.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.