For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.