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

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.