If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.