Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.