A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

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

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.