If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

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.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.