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.

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.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.