Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.