A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.