The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.