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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.
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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
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This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
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In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.