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.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.