When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.