I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.