I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.