As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.