My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

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

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Nonviolence requires great patience.