In The East, As In The West,

Morality Which Depends Upon The Helplessness Of A Man Or Woman Has Not Much To Recommend It. Morality Is Rooted In The Purity Of Our Hearts.

Those Who Believe Religion And Politics Aren't Connected Don't Understand Either.

The Nonviolence I Teach Is Active Nonviolence Of The Strongest. But The Weakest Can Partake In It Without Becoming Weaker.

The Function Of Violence Is To Obtain Reform By External Means, The Function Of Passive Resistance, That Is, Soul-force, Is To Obtain It By Growth From Within, Which, In Its Turn, Is Obtained By Self-suffering, Self-purification.

To Kill These (rabid) Dogs, In My Opinion, Amount To Himsa, But I Believe It To Be Inevitable If We Are To Escape Much Greater Himsa.