Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.