It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.