Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.