Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.