Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.