I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one….

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident..

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke..

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics wit….

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions..

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..

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..

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

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….

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen..

I have no weapon but nonviolence..

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..

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator..