The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.