Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.