An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.