We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

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

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.