Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.