Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.