It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.