Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

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.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.