Nonviolence requires great patience.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.