Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

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

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.