Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.