Freedom and slavery are mental states.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

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