A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.