In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
It is no religion to have for one’s wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one’s lap, it is the height of irreligion.
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.