Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.