I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.