Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.