True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.