The future of India lies in its villages

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.