A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.