Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.