Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.