A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.