My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.