My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

Love is the law of life.