My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.