The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

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

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.