History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.