Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.