Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.