Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.