It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.