Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.