True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.