He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.