There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Opening words of speech in defense trial, 1922.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.