Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.