A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.