The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.