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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.