The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.