The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.