Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?