The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
War knows no law except that of might.
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country’s honour.
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.