Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

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

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.