It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

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

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.