Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.