Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.