Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.