My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.