You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.