Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.