God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.