Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.