If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.