Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.