I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.