The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

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

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.