It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

We have to be the change we want in the world.