I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.