If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.