To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.