Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.