What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.