Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

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