I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.