People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.