Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.