There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.