What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.