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

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.