If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.