There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.