Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.