Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.