Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.