Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

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

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.