To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.