To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Means are ends in the making

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.