To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.