A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.