... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.