The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.