I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

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