I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.