A non-violent revolution is not a programme of seizure of power. It is a programme of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ...

If blood be shed, let it be our blood. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

I wanted to avoid violence. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

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.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.