It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

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.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.