Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.