It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

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

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.