The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.