Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.