Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.