Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.