Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.