“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

“We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”

“Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”

“Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”