My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.