To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.