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.

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.