It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Whatever I do is out of love.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

....service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

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 toward our fellow creatures.