It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.