We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

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

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.