3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.