My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.