Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage