None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.