"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it…"

"Without peace, all our dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."

"The only alternative to coexistence is co-destruction."

"If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside."

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."