Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.