The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.