A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

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.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.