In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.