The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it..

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towar….

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spi….

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation..

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate..

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it i….

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them..

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe..

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the futur….

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj..

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has..

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love..

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia..

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages..

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption..

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice..

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills..

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it..

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart..

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence..

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witnes….