If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.