Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

People become what they expect themselves to become

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any