As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.