If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.