That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one’s neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man’s soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man’s life must not be frequent.
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.