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

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.