I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together