A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.