Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Where love is, there God is also.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.