Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.