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

Be the change that you want to see

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.