Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.