For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

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.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.