Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.