A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.