It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.