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

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.