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.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.