Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.