Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.