With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.