Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.