Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.