The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.