India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.