It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.