Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.