In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.