Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.