My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

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