Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.