The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth