My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.