The true source of rights is duty.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.