Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.