Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.