I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.