The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.