Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.