There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.