“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.”

“Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.”

“Todo lo que hagas en la vida será insignificante, pero es importante que lo hagas.”

“I believe in the Hindu theory of Guru and his importance in spiritual realisation. I think there is a great deal of truth in the doctrine that true knowledge is impossible without a Guru.”

“unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.”

“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read  sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”

“If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.” 

“live simply so others can simply live”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“Hatred can be overcome only by love. ”

“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”

“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”