I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

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

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.