You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

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