Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.