How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.