Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Faith is a function of the heart.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.