If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

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

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.