A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

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

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

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

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.