Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.