When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.