You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.