A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

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

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence