Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.