Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

To see farther, you must climb higher.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.