Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."