Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.