I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
The soul of India lives in its villages.
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.