True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.