Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.