Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.