Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.