God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.