As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

Selfishness is blind.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

Be the change that you want to see.

Make injustice visible.

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

Earth and heaven are in us.