My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.