The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

There is no god greater than truth.