A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.