No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.