The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

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.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole