Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.