I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

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.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.