Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.