It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.