Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.