India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.