The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.