Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.