When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.