The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.