Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them..

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within..

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill..

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body..

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit..

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse..

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed..

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself..

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him..

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible..

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping..

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expressi….

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong..

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen..

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property..

I have no weapon but nonviolence..

God comes to the hungry in the form of food..

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties..

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth..

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi..

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life..