Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm’s way.
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
Violence always thrived on counter violence.
Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.