If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow