Few men are wantonly wicked.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.