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.

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.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.