To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.