Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.