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

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.