Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.