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

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.