Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.