Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.